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

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Sun Feb 15 11:10:01 CET 2015

On 15 February 2015 at 02:10, Chris Barker - NOAA Federal <chris.barker at noaa.gov> wrote:

On Feb 14, 2015, at 5:26 AM, Victor Stinner <victor.stinner at gmail.com> wrote: Do you propose a builtin function? I would prefer to put it in the math module. Yes, the math module is the proposed place for it. may add a new method to unittest.TestCase? It would show all parameters on error. .assertTrue(isclose(...)) doesn't help on error. Good point -- I'm not much OS a unittest user -- if someone wants to a unittest method, I think that would be fine. I did originally have that in the PEP, but it got distracting, so Guido suggested it be removed.

I don't think it needs to be in the PEP - assuming the PEP gets accepted, we can do a follow-up RFE for unittest.

Cheers, Nick.

-- Nick Coghlan | ncoghlan at gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia

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