From: R David Murray <rdmurray@bitdance.com>
Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2013 17:31:19 +0000 (-0400)
Subject: #18111: Add What's New entry for max/min default.
X-Git-Tag: v3.4.0a1~376
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=9a2f139ba0378fbdf3d68f13eebe2a0ca1f022b8;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git

#18111: Add What's New entry for max/min default.
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diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst
index 22e60d9c40a6..a00bc317013e 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst
@@ -140,6 +140,9 @@ Some smaller changes made to the core Python language are:
 * Import now raises the new exception :exc:`ModuleNotFoundError` (subclass of
   :exc:`ImportError`) when it cannot find something.
 
+* :func:`min` and :func:`max` now accept a *default* argument that can be used
+  to specify the value they return if the iterable they are evaluating has no
+  elements.  Contributed by Julian Berman in :issue:`18111`.
 
 
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