Federico Salerno writes: > I feel clip fits best with the idea of a collection to... clip.
True, but you can (for this purpose) think of a scalar as a singleton. Still, I think "clamp" is by far the best of the bunch (though I don't see a need for this function in the stdlib, and definitely not a builtin). The problem with making this a builtin is that I don't think that "clamp" is an unlikely identifier. In particular, I guess clamping the volume of a track in audio processing is a common operation. "clip" is much worse, as it's used in all of audio, image, and video processing, and I can imagine it as a place for keeping deleted or copied objects. math.clamp wouldn't be totally objectionable. Which suggests the question: Is there a commonly used equivalent for complex numbers? > As far as other options go, I agree with Mr D'Aprano's objection to > `minmax`, Definitely out. > and I'd like to toss a possible `coerce` Here my issue is that for me the *target* of a coercion should be a "single thing", which could be a type, but might also be a scalar. It is true that type theorists consider x in Reals and y in [0,1] to be different types, so "y = coerce(x) # to unit interval" could match that concept, but somehow that doesn't work for me. That may just be me, the majority of native speakers may disagree. _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/7AWYMMZSTP7IE7PCO3MNZVWYRG6Y4NN6/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
