[issue15224] Range: Additional Methods (min/max/__and__)

[Mark Dickinson]

Mark Dickinson <dickinsm at gmail.com> added the comment:

max and min for a range object are already O(1) one-liners:

>>> a = range(3, 21, 5)
>>> a[-1] if a.step > 0 else a[0]  # max(a)
18
>>> a[0] if a.step > 0 else a[-1]  # min(a)
3

As for __and__, it doesn't feel like a particularly natural operation to me, given that a range object represents an *ordered* sequence of integers rather than just a subset.  For example, what should the first element of

  range(7, -3, -2) & range(10)

be? 7 or 1? And why?

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