If you want to avoid this ValueError in general, you can set a default argument to min(), that will be returned in case of an empty list. See described here.
min([], default="EMPTY")
# returns EMPTY
Note that this only works in Python 3.4+
If you want to avoid this ValueError in general, you can set a default argument to min(), that will be returned in case of an empty list. See described here.
min([], default="EMPTY")
# returns EMPTY
Note that this only works in Python 3.4+