Hi all,
In several occasions, I found myself looking for a function that would
take a value and restrict is within a specified set of boundaries. For
a 1-dimension value, I could simply write
min(max(value,t heMin),theMax)
to restrict value within the range made of theMin to theMax.
It assumes that theMax >= theMin.
I was looking for a single call to restrict a value within bounds that
would do pretty much that, so i wrote this trivial one:
def restrain(value, theMin, theMax) :
"""Return a value that is in restricted to the [theMin, theMax] range.
**Example** for val in xrange(-1,7,1):
... print "restrain(%d,1, 5) = %d" % (val, restrain(val,1, 5))
...
restrain(-1,1,5) = 1
restrain(0,1,5) = 1
restrain(1,1,5) = 1
restrain(2,1,5) = 2
restrain(3,1,5) = 3
restrain(4,1,5) = 4
restrain(5,1,5) = 5
restrain(6,1,5) = 5
"""
assert(theMax >= theMin)
return min(max(value,t heMin),theMax)
Without the assertion check, the restrain() named function runs
expectedly slower than the explicit min(max()) calls:
C:\Python23\Lib >timeit "min(max(5,1),0 )"
1000000 loops, best of 3: 1.02 usec per loop
C:\Python23\Lib >timeit -s"from ut import restrain" "restrain(5,1,6 )"
1000000 loops, best of 3: 1.53 usec per loop
Again, I found myself writing code that has to restrain the values to
some range and prefer using the restrain() function instead of the
min(max()) one.
Therefore, I was wondering if it would it make sense to add a function
like restrain() to the list of Python built-ins. Or is there something
like that already in the Python library?
Thanks
Pierre 2 1619
"Pierre Rouleau" <pr******@impat hnetworks.com> wrote in message
news:xK******** ************@ne ws20.bellglobal .com... Hi all,
In several occasions, I found myself looking for a function that would take a value and restrict is within a specified set of boundaries. For a 1-dimension value, I could simply write
min(max(value,t heMin),theMax)
to restrict value within the range made of theMin to theMax. It assumes that theMax >= theMin.
I was looking for a single call to restrict a value within bounds that would do pretty much that, so i wrote this trivial one:
def restrain(value, theMin, theMax) : """Return a value that is in restricted to the [theMin, theMax]
range. **Example**
>>> for val in xrange(-1,7,1): ... print "restrain(%d,1, 5) = %d" % (val, restrain(val,1, 5)) ... restrain(-1,1,5) = 1 restrain(0,1,5) = 1 restrain(1,1,5) = 1 restrain(2,1,5) = 2 restrain(3,1,5) = 3 restrain(4,1,5) = 4 restrain(5,1,5) = 5 restrain(6,1,5) = 5 >>> """
assert(theMax >= theMin) return min(max(value,t heMin),theMax)
Without the assertion check, the restrain() named function runs expectedly slower than the explicit min(max()) calls:
C:\Python23\Lib >timeit "min(max(5,1),0 )" 1000000 loops, best of 3: 1.02 usec per loop
C:\Python23\Lib >timeit -s"from ut import restrain" "restrain(5,1,6 )" 1000000 loops, best of 3: 1.53 usec per loop
Again, I found myself writing code that has to restrain the values to some range and prefer using the restrain() function instead of the min(max()) one.
Therefore, I was wondering if it would it make sense to add a function like restrain() to the list of Python built-ins. Or is there something like that already in the Python library?
Thanks
Pierre
I know I've wanted that on (infrequent) occasion. I think
"minmax" makes a better name, though, and I suspect it
would have to be implemented in C to make any sense,
performancewise .
John Roth
John Roth wrote: "Pierre Rouleau" <pr******@impat hnetworks.com> wrote in message news:xK******** ************@ne ws20.bellglobal .com...
Hi all,
In several occasions, I found myself looking for a function that would take a value and restrict is within a specified set of boundaries. For a 1-dimension value, I could simply write
min(max(value ,theMin),theMax )
to restrict value within the range made of theMin to theMax. It assumes that theMax >= theMin.
I was looking for a single call to restrict a value within bounds that would do pretty much that, so i wrote this trivial one:
def restrain(value, theMin, theMax) : """Return a value that is in restricted to the [theMin, theMax]
range.
**Example**
>>> for val in xrange(-1,7,1): ... print "restrain(%d,1, 5) = %d" % (val, restrain(val,1, 5)) ... restrain(-1,1,5) = 1 restrain(0,1,5) = 1 restrain(1,1,5) = 1 restrain(2,1,5) = 2 restrain(3,1,5) = 3 restrain(4,1,5) = 4 restrain(5,1,5) = 5 restrain(6,1,5) = 5 >>> """
assert(theMax >= theMin) return min(max(value,t heMin),theMax)
Without the assertion check, the restrain() named function runs expectedly slower than the explicit min(max()) calls:
C:\Python23\L ib>timeit "min(max(5,1),0 )" 1000000 loops, best of 3: 1.02 usec per loop
C:\Python23\L ib>timeit -s"from ut import restrain" "restrain(5,1,6 )" 1000000 loops, best of 3: 1.53 usec per loop
Again, I found myself writing code that has to restrain the values to some range and prefer using the restrain() function instead of the min(max()) one.
Therefore, I was wondering if it would it make sense to add a function like restrain() to the list of Python built-ins. Or is there something like that already in the Python library?
Thanks
Pierre
I know I've wanted that on (infrequent) occasion. I think "minmax" makes a better name, though, and I suspect it would have to be implemented in C to make any sense, performancewise .
John Roth
I would prefer 'limit' than 'minmax' myself if 'restrain' was not
'retained' ;-)
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