sympy.min, sympy.max

[Björn Dahlgren]

Hi all,

I found myself looking for sympy.min and sympy.max today, a solution is quite trivial:

def min(a, b):
    return Piecewise((a, a < b), (b, True))

and max in analogy. Would it make sense to include those functions? Are they too simple?
Have I overlooked some aspect?

Best regards,
Björn

[Aaron Meurer]

They already exist as Min and Max (the lowercase names are already taken by Python and we don't override builtin names). It's actually more complicated than what you suggest because they work on n arguments. 

Aaron Meurer

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[Björn Dahlgren]

On Tuesday, 22 December 2015 17:35:49 UTC+1, Aaron Meurer wrote:

They already exist as Min and Max (the lowercase names are already taken by Python and we don't override builtin names). It's actually more complicated than what you suggest because they work on n arguments. 

Ah, thanks! Sorry about the noise (i really should make "grep -i" my default).