[Numpy-discussion] Floating point "close" function?

[Robert Kern]

On Sat, Mar 3, 2012 at 15:51, Olivier Delalleau <shish at keba.be> wrote:
> Le 3 mars 2012 10:27, Robert Kern <robert.kern at gmail.com> a écrit :
>>
>> On Sat, Mar 3, 2012 at 14:34, Robert Kern <robert.kern at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > On Sat, Mar 3, 2012 at 14:31, Ralf Gommers <ralf.gommers at googlemail.com>
>> > wrote:
>>
>> >> Because this is also bad:
>> >>>>> np.<TAB>
>> >> Display all 561 possibilities? (y or n)
>> >
>> > Not as bad as overloading np.allclose(x,y,return_array=True). Or
>> > deprecating np.allclose() in favor of np.close().all().
>>
>> I screwed up this paragraph. I meant that as "Another alternative
>> would be to deprecate ...".
>
>
> np.close().all() would probably be a lot less efficient in terms of CPU /
> memory though, wouldn't it?

No. np.allclose() is essentially doing exactly this already.

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Robert Kern