Question

Other than the following brute force method, is there a simpler way to allocate value to a variable given a if condition?

Method 1:

a, b, c, d = 0.03,0.4,0.055,0.7
x = 0.2

if a < x:
  a = x
if b < x:
  b = x
if c < x:
  c = x
if d < x:
  d = x

Answer 1

Perhaps:

a, b, c, d = max(a, x), max(b, x), max(c, x), max(d, x)

but if you have a lot of variables being handled in exactly the same way a list might be better.

values = [0.03,0.4,0.055,0.7]
x = 0.2

values = [max(v, x) for v in values]