nuclearpinguin commented on a change in pull request #7083: [AIRFLOW-6490] 
Improve time delta comparison in local task job tests
URL: https://github.com/apache/airflow/pull/7083#discussion_r364303781
 
 

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 File path: tests/jobs/test_local_task_job.py
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 @@ -159,7 +159,10 @@ def test_heartbeat_failed_fast(self, mock_getpid):
             for i in range(1, len(heartbeat_records)):
                 time1 = heartbeat_records[i - 1]
                 time2 = heartbeat_records[i]
-                self.assertGreaterEqual((time2 - time1).total_seconds(), 
job.heartrate)
+                # Assert that difference small enough to avoid:
+                # AssertionError: 1.996401 not greater than or equal to 2
+                delta = abs((time2 - time1).total_seconds() - job.heartrate)
+                self.assertLessEqual(delta, 0.005)
 
 Review comment:
   Here we go again... 😜 unittests have `assertAlmostEqual` that do the same 
thing. But I decided to be explicit, in math when you want to be sure that 
something is "the same thing" you assert that the difference is small enough 
(null set) 🤷🏼‍♂️

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