[Python-ideas] PEP 485: A Function for testing approximate equality (original) (raw)

Chris Barker chris.barker at noaa.gov
Fri Feb 6 01:12:30 CET 2015

On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 3:05 PM, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:

Are you sure? I don't see any special handling of sequences in its

docs or code...

The one in unittest doesn't have this feature. However there's assertApproxEqual defined locally in the test/teststatistics.py package that does.

Indeed -- it looks like I confused those two -- sorry about that.

-Chris

Since the other is only meant for local use in teststatistics.py, we should leave it alone. The one in unittest is pretty bad but widely used; deprecating it won't have any teeth.

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