# minmax¶

iteration_utilities.minmax(iterable, /, key, default)

Computes the minimum and maximum values in one-pass using only 1.5*len(iterable) comparisons. Recipe based on the snippet of Raymond Hettinger ([0]) but significantly modified.

Parameters: iterable : iterable The iterable for which to calculate the minimum and maximum. Note Instead of one iterable it is also possible to pass the values (at least 2) as positional arguments. key : callable, optional If not given then compare the values, otherwise compare key(item). default : any type, optional If not given raise ValueError if the iterable is empty otherwise return (default, default) minimum : any type The minimum of the iterable. maximum : any type The maximum of the iterable. ValueError If iterable is empty and no default is given.

min
Calculate the minimum of an iterable.
max
Calculate the maximum of an iterable.

References

Examples

This function calculates the minimum (min()) and maximum (max()) of an iterable:

>>> from iteration_utilities import minmax
>>> minmax([2,1,3,5,4])
(1, 5)


or pass in the values as arguments:

>>> minmax(2, 1, -1, 5, 4)
(-1, 5)


If the iterable is empty default is returned:

>>> minmax([], default=0)
(0, 0)


Like the builtin functions it also supports a key argument:

>>> import operator
>>> seq = [(3, 2), (5, 1), (10, 3), (8, 5), (3, 4)]
>>> minmax(seq, key=operator.itemgetter(1))
((5, 1), (8, 5))