def _validateParamsFor_validateNum(min=None, max=None, lessThan=None, greaterThan=None):
    """Raises an exception if the arguments are invalid. This is called by
    the validateNum(), validateInt(), and validateFloat() functions to
    check its arguments. This code was refactored out to a separate function
    so that the PyInputPlus module (or other modules) could check their
    parameters' arguments for inputNum() etc.
    """

    if (min is not None) and (greaterThan is not None):
        raise PySimpleValidateException('only one argument for min or greaterThan can be passed, not both')
    if (max is not None) and (lessThan is not None):
        raise PySimpleValidateException('only one argument for max or lessThan can be passed, not both')

    if (min is not None) and (max is not None) and (min > max):
        raise PySimpleValidateException('the min argument must be less than or equal to the max argument')
    if (min is not None) and (lessThan is not None) and (min >= lessThan):
        raise PySimpleValidateException('the min argument must be less than the lessThan argument')
    if (max is not None) and (greaterThan is not None) and (max <= greaterThan):
        raise PySimpleValidateException('the max argument must be greater than the greaterThan argument')

    for name, val in (('min', min), ('max', max),
                      ('lessThan', lessThan), ('greaterThan', greaterThan)):
        if not isinstance(val, (int, float, type(None))):
            raise PySimpleValidateException(name + ' argument must be int, float, or NoneType')
Raises an exception if the arguments are invalid. This is called by
    the validateNum(), validateInt(), and validateFloat() functions to
    check its arguments. This code was refactored out to a separate function
    so that the PyInputPlus module (or other modules) could check their
    parameters' arguments for inputNum() etc.