[issue36788] Add clamp() function to builtins

Mark Dickinson added the comment: Another python-ideas thread, from 2016: https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-id...@python.org/thread/EHZAXE4P2VOT3CE4H6SNDPDASW7H2CGS/ -- ___ Python tracker

[issue36788] Add clamp() function to builtins

Mark Dickinson added the comment: #41408 was closed as a duplicate of this issue See also the recent discussion on python-ideas at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-id...@python.org/thread/KWAOQFSV3YJYQV2Y5JXGXFCXHJ3WFLRS/#KWAOQFSV3YJYQV2Y5JXGXFCXHJ3WFLRS That discussion has

[issue36788] Add clamp() function to builtins

Mark Dickinson added the comment: > Maybe port this discussion over python-ideas and after the resolution open it > again? Sounds good to me. Adding a new builtin function is a big deal that would likely need a PEP. I'm not keen on adding something like this to the math module, either,

[issue36788] Add clamp() function to builtins

Batuhan added the comment: Should this issue stay? Maybe port this discussion over python-ideas and after the resolution open it again? -- nosy: +BTaskaya ___ Python tracker

[issue36788] Add clamp() function to builtins

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[issue36788] Add clamp() function to builtins

Steven D'Aprano added the comment: I doubt this is important enough to go into builtins, the only practical use-case I know of for this function is with numbers, so this could go in the math module. But putting that aside, there are some other problems: - it isn't clear that clamp() is

[issue36788] Add clamp() function to builtins

TheComet added the comment: I have implemented it on my branch here: https://github.com/TheComet/cpython/blob/fix-issue-36788/Python/bltinmodule.c It still needs further testing and I haven't leak checked it properly. -- ___ Python tracker

[issue36788] Add clamp() function to builtins

New submission from TheComet : It would be nice to have a clamp() builtin in addition to min() and max() so one can type e.g. "clamp(value, 2, 5)" instead of having to type "min(max(value, 5), 2)". -- components: Library (Lib) messages: 341358 nosy: TheComet priority: normal