[New-bugs-announce] [issue14451] sum, min, max only works with iterable

[Fade78]

New submission from Fade78 <fade at wanadoo.fr>:

The built-in functions working with iterable should also work with single object that is relevent.

For example:
max([1,6,5]) -> 6
max(6) -> TypeError because not an iterable (actual behavior)
max(6) -> 6 (wanted pythonic behavior)

So if I write a generic function like this:

def f(x):
    totalsum+=sum(x)

it fails if x is not an iterable. But I want the argument to be anything possible. Using if(type) to separate use cases is not very pythonic.

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components: None
messages: 157133
nosy: Fade78
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: sum, min, max only works with iterable
type: behavior
versions: Python 3.2

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