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

[Antoine Pitrou]

On Wed, 4 Feb 2015 16:48:41 -0800
Chris Barker <chris.barker at noaa.gov> wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> Time for Take 2 (or is that take 200?)
> 
> No, I haven't dropped this ;-) After the lengthy thread, I went through and
> tried to take into account all the thoughts and comments. The result is a
> PEP with a bunch more explanation, and some slightly different decisions.

I think it is a nuisance that this PEP doesn't work at zero by default.
If this is meant to ease the life of non-specialist users then it
should do the right thing out of the box, IMO.

Regards

Antoine.