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Author doughellmann
Recipients Julian, doughellmann, ncoghlan, nedbat, r.david.murray, rhettinger, skrah, twouters
Date 2013-06-03.15:27:27
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+1 on adding this

I found today via @dabeaz's cookbook that iter() has a sentinel-detection use case. Having one in min/max seems *far* more obviously useful. It's also consistent with quite a few methods on builtin types where we provide a way to deal with unknown data safely by having a default instead of catching exceptions directly.
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