On Mon, Jun 11, 2018 at 02:12:06PM -0700, Chris Barker wrote: > no, but you can say "y is as close to zero as I care about"
Of course you can. But we (the std lib) should not make that decision for everybody. For some people 0.001 is "close enough to zero". For others, 1e-16 is not. We're not in the position to decide for everyone. -- Steve _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list Python-ideas@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/