[Python-Dev] PEP 485: math.isclose()

[Tal Einat]

On Mon, May 25, 2015 at 7:53 AM, Chris Barker <chris.barker at noaa.gov> wrote:
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> In the issue (http://bugs.python.org/issue24270) Tal wrote
>
> [...]
>
> """
>  Should we just leave things as they are and remove mention of complex
> values from the PEP (it isn't mentioned in the docs)?
> """
> I'll update the PEP.

If we're going to add a separate complex version of isclose() to the
cmath module, then you should probably leave the PEP as it is.

While we're on the subject of the PEP, is there a reason that the
cmath version should accept complex values for the tolerances? I'd
expect it to accept only floats, and I think that allowing complex
values would be more confusing than useful.

- Tal Einat