How to apply max & min boundaries to a value without using conditional statements

Question

Problem:

Write a Python function, clip(lo, x, hi) that returns lo if x is less than lo; hi if x is greater than hi; and x otherwise. For this problem, y

Answer 1

solution:

def clip(lo, x, hi):
    x = max(lo, x)
    x = min(x, hi)   
    return x