<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 3:05 PM, Guido van Rossum <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:guido@python.org" target="_blank">guido@python.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><span class=""><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Are you sure? I don't see any special handling of sequences in its<br>
docs or code...<span></span><br></blockquote></div><br></div></span><div class="gmail_extra">The one in unittest doesn't have this feature. However there's assertApproxEqual defined locally in the test/test_statistics.py package that does. </div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Indeed -- it looks like I confused those two -- sorry about that.</div><div><br></div><div>-Chris</div><div> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra">Since the other is only meant for local use in test_statistics.py, we should leave it alone. The one in unittest is pretty bad but widely used; deprecating it won't have any teeth.<br clear="all"></div><span class=""><div class="gmail_extra"><br>-- <br><div>--Guido van Rossum (<a href="http://python.org/~guido" target="_blank">python.org/~guido</a>)</div>
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