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

[Chris Barker]

On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 3:05 PM, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:

> Are you sure? I don't see any special handling of sequences in its
>> docs or code...
>>
>
> The one in unittest doesn't have this feature. However there's
> assertApproxEqual defined locally in the test/test_statistics.py package
> that does.
>

Indeed -- it looks like I confused those two -- sorry about that.

-Chris


> Since the other is only meant for local use in test_statistics.py, we
> should leave it alone. The one in unittest is pretty bad but widely used;
> deprecating it won't have any teeth.
>
> --
> --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido)
>



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