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

[Ryan Gonzalez]

Doesn't Python already have this with unittest.TestCase.assertAlmostEqual
<https://docs.python.org/3.4/library/unittest.html#unittest.TestCase.assertAlmostEqual>
?


On Sat, Feb 14, 2015 at 7:26 AM, Victor Stinner <victor.stinner at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Do you propose a builtin function? I would prefer to put it in the math
> module.
>
> You may add a new method to unittest.TestCase? It would show all
> parameters on error. .assertTrue(isclose(...)) doesn't help on error.
>
> Victor
>
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