Mark Dickinson added the comment: The `assertAlmostEqual` comparison looks at the difference between the two values, and rounds that to 2 decimal places. In this case, the difference is approximately 0.00505, which rounded to 2 decimal places is 0.01.
If instead each of the two values were rounded and the rounded values compared, you'd end up in a situation where (for example) `self.assertEqual(1.144999999, 1.145000001, places=2)` failed, despite the values being only 2 billionths apart. ---------- nosy: +mark.dickinson _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue30515> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
