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@@ -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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