Proposal: min(None, x) and max(None, x) return x

[Dennis Lee Bieber]

Eric Brunel fed this fish to the penguins on Friday 22 November 2002 
06:25 am:

> 
> xMax = None
> for -whatever-:
>   -big calculation leading to a value of x-
>   if xMax is None:
>     xMax = x
>   else:
>     xMax = max(x, xMax)
>

        Well, slightly shorter visually:

xMax = None
for -whatever-:
        -big calculation leading to a value of x-
        if xMax is None: xMax = x
        xMax = max(x, xMax)

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