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

Paul Moore p.f.moore at gmail.com
Tue Jan 27 17:31:26 CET 2015


On 27 January 2015 at 16:19, Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> On 27/01/2015 16:07, Paul Moore wrote:
>>
>> On 27 January 2015 at 15:56, Ron Adam <ron3200 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Would it help if it was consistent order wise with other python functions
>>> such as is_instance?
>>
>>
>> /me tries to remember the order of arguments for isinstance and fails :-)
>> Paul
>>
>
> Can you remember how to do this?
>
>>>> help(isinstance)

Of course, but (a) it was a joke, and (b) I'm not always at a Python
prompt when reading (or writing!) Python code.

Apologies for being facetious, though.
Paul


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