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Solve the following problem using Python, implementing the functions described below, one line at a time
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Description:
 def validate_input(self, validation_definition):
 """In this example we are using external validation to verify that min is less than max. If validate_input does not raise an Exception, the input is assumed to be valid. Otherwise it prints the exception as an error message when telling splunkd that the configuration is invalid. When using external validation, after splunkd calls the modular input with --scheme to get a scheme, it calls it again with --validate-arguments for each instance of the modular input in its configuration files, feeding XML on stdin to the modular input to do validation. It is called the same way whenever a modular input's configuration is edited. :param validation_definition: a ValidationDefinition object """

        # Get the parameters from the ValidationDefinition object,
        # then typecast the values as floats
        minimum = float(validation_definition.parameters["min"])
        maximum = float(validation_definition.parameters["max"])

        if minimum >= maximum:
            raise ValueError("min must be less than max; found min=%f, max=%f" % minimum, maximum)