[Python-ideas] PEP 485: A Function for testing approximate equality

[Marco Buttu]

On 05/02/2015 18:56, Guido van Rossum wrote:

> - Which module should this go into? (I think math, but I don't think 
> you state it.)

In that case it should be isclose(), for consistency with the other 
math.is* functions. But wherever we put it, I would suggest to change to 
isclose() because in the standard library we usually have issomething() 
instead of is_something().

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