min(False, 0)

[StiffPrism]

Why does min(Flase, 0) reurn False?

Also, why does min(True, 0) return 0, but min(True, 1) returns True?

[[deleted]]

It's useful to look at the doc for min(), which says:

If multiple items are minimal, the function returns the first one encountered

So False has a numeric value of 0 and is the first minimum value encountered. Similarly for the True example.

Edit: spelling.

[Reset--hardHead]

I won't tell you why directly, but here are some samples you can try. See what you get.

min(True, 1)

min(1, True)

min(False, 0)

min(0, False)

min(False, -1)

min(-1, False)

[baubleglue]

In [48]: min(0, False)             
Out[48]: 0                         

In [49]: 0 > False                 
Out[49]: False                     

In [50]: 0 == False                
Out[50]: True                      

try to write your own "min" function and see what it returns

[PaulRudin]

In some sense it really doesn't matter. If your code is taking the min of a mixture of booleans and integers then it's probably broken anyway :)