On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 9:53 AM, Nathaniel Smith <njs@pobox.com> wrote:
> I don't know what the usecases for np.allclose are since I don't have any.

I use it all the time -- sometimes you want to check something, but not raise an assertion -- and I use it like:

assert np.allclose() 

with pytest, because it does some nice failure reporting that way (though maybe because I just landed on that).

Though I have to say I"m very surprised that assert_allclose() doesn't simpily call allclose() to do it's work, and having different default is really really bad.

but that cat's out of the bag.

If we don't normalize these, we should put nice strong notes in the docs for both that they are NOT the same.

-CHB


 
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