But I'm fairly sure by now that Guido's right and this should just be a recipe.
I think the long thread here is more a reflection that it's an interesting problem, and frankly, simple enough that almost anyone has something to say about it. But the fact that there is no one way to do it that is perfect for all cases doesn't mean there isn't one way to do it that is useful in the vast majority of cases. I'm quite sure that most of the options on the table fit that bill, in fact. And I'm optimistic that we can converge on an option that most everyone on this thread can live with.
I can write my own close_enough function now, with the information from this thread.
Sure -- but the idea is that you shouldn't have to. Particularly for unittest.TestCase or quick command line checks. -Chris
The only bit I'd struggle over is what tolerance to use, and it doesn't look like anyone has a particularly good universal answer for that :-)
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