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

[Andrew Barnert]

On Thursday, February 5, 2015 11:47 AM, Chris Barker <chris.barker at noaa.gov> wrote:

>- For unittests are you proposing to replace assertAlmostEquals or deprecate that and add a new assertIsCloseTo? (I hope the latter.
>

>Add an assertIsCloseTo -- whether assertAlmostEquals should be deprecated I have no opinion on. Though it is useful, as it acts over a sequence -- I"m guessing fols will want to keep it.

Why not have assertIsCloseTo act over a sequence in exactly the same way as assertAlmostEquals, in which case there's no reason to keep the latter (except for existing unit tests that already use it, but presumably a long period of deprecation is sufficient there)?