On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 13:18, Ken Basye <kbasye1@jhu.edu> wrote:
Hi Numpy folks, When working with floats, I prefer to have exact string representations in doctests and other reference-based testing; I find it helps a lot to avoid chasing cross-platform differences that are really about the string conversion rather than about numerical differences.
Unfortunately, there are still cross-platform numerical differences that are real (but are irrelevant to the validity of the code under test). Hex-printing for floats only helps a little to make doctests useful for numerical code. -- Robert Kern "I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth." -- Umberto Eco