chouyu_31

type is a "function" (read: callable object) that typcially returns the type of an object, but it creates a subtype if you pass it three arguments. type is also a type.

I don't see how making max and min more useful could possibly be any "worse" than that. I think it's really cool actually. max is a singleton that serves as a maximum value for any comparison that happens to have a callable that returns the maximum object in a sequence (read: something that supports the iterator protocol implicitly or explicitly).

I really think it's more attractive than adding members to cmp, which is a worse offense in my book. I don't know anywhere in (typical standard) Python where foo.bar is some useful type or singleton, except when foo is a module or package.

You don't need to convince me, I'm sold on the min being the minimum and max being the maximum. I've already emailed the mailing list and offered it as an option, and am going to put it in the PEP as an "Open Issue".