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I need help doing this problem without any conditionals or loops:

Write the function getInRange which takes 3 values (which you may assume are all numeric) -- x, bound1, and bound2, where bound1 is not necessarily less than bound2. If x is between the two bounds, just return it unmodified. Otherwise, if x is less than the lower bound, return the lower bound, or if x is greater than the upper bound, return the upper bound.

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Please provide your code , site is meant for code review not the solution of problem .please migrate it to stackoverflow. – paritosh Dec 25 '12 at 4:11
Other than perhaps some ridiculous bitwise-hackery, it's not possible to do conditional logical without conditionals.... – Corbin Dec 25 '12 at 6:28
Unless functions are allowed, even if those contain conditionals – Glenn Rogers Dec 25 '12 at 7:38

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how about:

def getInRange(x, bound1, bound2):
    return max(min(x, bound2), bound1)

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