I would suggest something like a ~= b, for "approximately equal to". How approximately? Well, there would be a default that could be changed somewhere.
Don't know if it's all that useful, though. Tiago A.O.A. Terry Reedy escreveu: > "Imri Goldberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > | Most experienced programmers know that you shouldn't compare floating > | point numbers with ==. > > As a general statement, this is wrong. Mark gave examples. > Please drop the proposal. > > The reason for the int division change is the idea that expressions > involving integral values should, insofar as possible, have the same value > result regardless of the types used to carry the input (or output) values. > Hence 1/2 should equal 1.0/2.0 == .5. The idea that 1 == 1 and 1.0 == 1.0 > should give a different answer goes against this principle and the 2.x > project of number unification. > > tjr > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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/tiagoaoa%40cos.ufrj.br > > _______________________________________________ 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
