[issue27953] math.tan has poor accuracy near pi/2 on OS X Tiger

Mark Dickinson added the comment: Given enough time, it would make a lot of sense to adapt these tests to use the subtests machinery (though it's not immediately clear to me how to make @requires_mac_ver work with the subtests machinery). I'm afraid this issue was a bit of a quick fix to get

[issue27953] math.tan has poor accuracy near pi/2 on OS X Tiger

Ned Deily added the comment: Mark, ah, yes, that's true. So the tests would have to be separated out into a separate test case method. So, not worth the effort. -- ___ Python tracker

[issue27953] math.tan has poor accuracy near pi/2 on OS X Tiger

Mark Dickinson added the comment: Ned: that's for skipping an entire test method, right? Here a single test method tests a few hundred different special cases; we want to exclude only one of those cases. -- ___ Python tracker

[issue27953] math.tan has poor accuracy near pi/2 on OS X Tiger

Ned Deily added the comment: It would be nice to use the existing @requires_mac_ver() decorator to skip the tests (see Lib/test/support/__init__.py). -- ___ Python tracker

[issue27953] math.tan has poor accuracy near pi/2 on OS X Tiger

Changes by Mark Dickinson : -- title: tan has poor accuracy near pi/2 on OS X Tiger -> math.tan has poor accuracy near pi/2 on OS X Tiger ___ Python tracker