[issue26040] Improve coverage and rigour of test.test_math

[Mark Dickinson]

Mark Dickinson added the comment:

> or at least, no more unhappy than before

Not quite true: test_math and test_cmath are failing for the x86 Tiger 3.x buildbot:

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FAIL: test_testfile (test.test_math.MathTests)
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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Users/db3l/buildarea/3.x.bolen-tiger/build/Lib/test/test_math.py", line 1190, in test_testfile
    '\n  '.join(failures))
AssertionError: Failures in test_testfile:
  tan0064: tan(1.5707963267948961): expected 1978937966095219.0, got 1978945885716843.0 (error = 7.92e+09 (31678486496 ulps); permitted error = 0 or 5 ulps)


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FAIL: test_specific_values (test.test_cmath.CMathTests)
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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Users/db3l/buildarea/3.x.bolen-tiger/build/Lib/test/test_cmath.py", line 398, in test_specific_values
    msg=error_message)
  File "/Users/db3l/buildarea/3.x.bolen-tiger/build/Lib/test/test_cmath.py", line 147, in rAssertAlmostEqual
    '{!r} and {!r} are not sufficiently close'.format(a, b))
AssertionError: tan0064: tan(complex(1.5707963267948961, 0.0))
Expected: complex(1978937966095219.0, 0.0)
Received: complex(1978945885716843.0, 0.0)
Received value insufficiently close to expected value.


It's probably not worth trying to fix this for such an ancient version of OS X. Re-opening; I'll aim to skip the test on the platform.

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status: closed -> open

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