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

Another solution:

def clip(lo, x, hi):
    result = {x: x}
    result[min(x, lo)] = lo
    result[max(x, hi)] = hi
    return result[x]