On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 6:15 PM, Jason Grout <jason-s...@creativetrax.com> wrote: > On 3/16/11 3:04 PM, Peter Jeremy wrote: > >> Overall, I believe the abs(actual-expected)<tiny_number approach is >> the only practical way to handle doctests. The expected numeric >> result is still available, just not on a line by itself. > > Crazy idea: What if we introduce a "# numeric 1e-10" doctest flag (like > #optional, etc.) that does just that---reads in the doctest answer, gets the > output of the function, and does an abs(actual-expected)< epsilon (where > epsilon can be specified in the flag, or it has a default). > > sage: some_numerical_function() # numeric 1e-6 > 3.43234454 > > passes if abs(real result-3.43234454)<1e-6
+1, that's a great idea. I'd be up for # [relative|absolute] tolerance [<epsilon>] - Robert -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
