Comment by oefrha

That wouldn't make any sense.

  >>> min(['a', 'b'])
  'a'
  >>> min(['a'])
  'a'
  >>> min([])
  float('-inf')  # ???

An empty list is not a list of numbers. It's not a list of anything.

(You can use typing hinting to indicate the type of an empty list, but type hints are ignored by the interpreter.)