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

[Chris Barker]

On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 12:14 PM, Marco Buttu <marco.buttu at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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().


I was going with PEP8: "Function names should be lowercase, with words
separated by underscores as necessary to improve readability." But
consistency with other functions in the lib (or specifically in the same
module) is probably better, yes.

-Chris




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