[Python-ideas] Fwd: Re: PEP 485: A Function for testing approximate equality (original) (raw)
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The period for bikeshedding is over. On Feb 17, 2015 8:19 AM, "Mark Young" <marky1991 at gmail.com> wrote:
I don't have a real-world use case other than that sounds like something I would do with a function called isclose. I don't think we get much of anything (Except saving a few characters wen you want to define your tolerance with respect to significant digits) by forcing the error tolerances to be a power of ten. (And passing tolerance=math.log(X) is awful api design)
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