Avoiding multiple (not nested) if statements in my code

Question

I am writing a function to scan a specific map (2D array). In order to avoid scanning spots outside of the array, I wrote a few if statements, but it feels like the wrong, long, inefficient way of doing it.

H is the map's height value, int W is for width, int c is the current spot, a tuple containing x and y values.

 floorH = c[0]-D
 floorW = c[1]-D
 ceilingH = c[0]+D+1
 ceilingW = c[1]+D+1
 if floorH < 0:
 floorH = 0
 if floorW < 0:
 floorW = 0
 if ceilingH > H:
 ceilingH = H
 if ceilingW > W:
 ceilingW = W

How can I write this better?

Thanks in advance :)

Answer 1

Instead of using conditionals you could just use the max and min functions.

floorH = c[0]-D
floorW = c[1]-D
ceilingH = c[0]+D+1
ceilingW = c[1]+D+1
floorH = max(floorH, 0)
floorW = max(floorW, 0)
ceilingH = min(ceilingH , H)
ceilingW = min(ceilingW , W)

Actually you can make it even shorter:

floorH = max(c[0]-D, 0)
floorW = max(c[1]-D, 0)
ceilingH = min(c[0]+D+1, H)
ceilingW = min(c[1]+D+1, W)

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Answer 2

You can format your if like this to save space:

floorH = c[0]-D if c[0]-D > 0 else 0
floorW = c[1]-D if c[1]-D > 0 else 0
ceilingH = c[0]+D+1 if c[0]+D+1 < H else H
ceilingW = c[1]+D+1 if c[1]+D+1 < W else W