unittest: Proposal to add failUnlessNear

[Antoon Pardon]

Op 2004-07-20, Jeff Epler schreef <jepler at unpythonic.net>:
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>> Op 2004-07-19, Jeff Epler schreef <jepler at unpythonic.net>:
>> > and especially about how to choose "tolerance" properly.
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> On Tue, Jul 20, 2004 at 07:32:53AM +0000, Antoon Pardon wrote:
>> Sorry, but that would require a course in numerical
>> analysis.
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> Oh, that's too bad.  I bet this will end up being misused by a lot of
> pepole, then, because few of us have had courses in numerical analysis.

Well then I suspect that assertAlmostEqual, is being missued by a lot
of people, because properly choosing the right number of places to round to,
is about the same difficulty as properly choosing a tolerance.

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Antoon Pardon