Re: [Numpy-discussion] portable doctests despite floating points numbers

2010-10-26 Thread Fabrice Silva
Another solution http://code.activestate.com/recipes/577124-approximately-equal/ -- Fabrice Silva ___ NumPy-Discussion mailing list NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion

Re: [Numpy-discussion] portable doctests despite floating points numbers

2010-10-21 Thread Sébastien Barthélemy
I've haven't found any clean way. So I'll use numpy.allclose in my doctests. It will be harder to read, less interactive-session-like, but it might show the reader how compare floats properly. On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 2:05 PM, Fabrice Silva si...@lma.cnrs-mrs.fr wrote: Maybe you should not rely

[Numpy-discussion] portable doctests despite floating points numbers

2010-10-15 Thread Sébastien Barthélemy
Hello all, I use doctest for examples and tests in a program which relies heavily on numpy. As floating point calculations differs slightly across computers (32/64 bits), I have troubles writing portable doctests. The doctest documentation [1] advises to use numbers in the form int/2**n. This