On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 20:55, Eli Bendersky <eli...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm working on improving the .rst documentation of test.support (Issue > 11015), and came upon the undocumented "fcmp" function that's being > exported from test.support, along with a "FUZZ"constant. > > As I search through the tests (py3k trunk), I see fcmp() is being used > only in two places in a fairly trivial way: > 1. test_float: where it can be directly replaced by assertAlmostEqual > from unittest > 2. test_builtin: where the assertion can also be easily rewritten in > terms of assertAlmostEqual > > Although fcmp seems to provide extra functionality over > assertAlmostEqual, the above makes me think it should probably be > removed altogether, or added to unittest if it's still deemed > important. > > +/- ?
I say drop it if it can be done so safely. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
