Best way to find max and min of two values
<p>I have a function that is passed two values and then iterates over the range of those values. The values can be passed in any order, so I need to find which one is the lowest first.  I had the function written like this:</p>

<pre><code>def myFunc(x, y):
    if x &gt; y:
        min_val, max_val = y, x
    else:
        min_val, max_val = x, y
    for i in range(min_val, max_val):
    ...
</code></pre>

<p>But to save some screen space, I ended up changing it to:</p>

<pre><code>def myFunc(x, y):
   min_val, max_val = sorted([x, y])
   for i in range(min_val, max_val):
   ...
</code></pre>

<p>How bad is this?  Is there a better way that's still one line?</p>
