Trouble Understanding O'Reilly Example

[slyraymond]

So the book contains a typo.

Hmm.  What's amusing about this particular typo is that on the very next
page the authors give the result of the function call, and the erroneous
result is consistent with the code:

(from p. 215):
"C:\Python22>python mins.py
 2"

...a double typo!

Chris wrote:

> slyraymond wrote:
> 
>> def min1(*args):
>> res = args[0]
>> for arg in args[1:]:
>> if arg < args:
>> res = arg
>> return res
> Apologizing for whatever damage knode did to the formatting, try:
> 
> if arg < res:
> 
> instead of
> 
> if arg < args
> 
> For debugging purposes, add the line
> 
> print args
> 
> just before the return statement to see exactly what is going on.
> 
> Chris