On 2020-07-05 15:15, Steven D'Aprano wrote: [snip]
The only differences I can see are that my implementation of clamp() supports None as a short-hand for infinity; and that it treats NANs according to the standard, unlike the builtin min and max, which manage to provide the worst of both possible words: they treat NANs according to the order of the arguments, thus satisfying nobody and annoying everybody.The first part is, I think, important because with the min+max idiom, if one side is unbounded, you can just leave it out: min(x, 1000) # like clamp(x, -float('inf'), 1000) but with clamp you have to supply *something* to mean "unbounded", and using float("inf") is not very convenient. So it's just a tiny bit of sugar to make the function more useful.
+1 to using None. [snip] _______________________________________________ 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/3GVTX4TM2Z5VZXQLBMJTJQS6S6FK76J5/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
