On Mar 17, 5:12 pm, Steven D'Aprano <ste...@remove.this.cybersource.com.au> wrote: > On Mon, 15 Mar 2010 16:34:35 -0700,JLundellwrote: > > It's also unfortunate that Python doesn't have an approximately-equal > > operator; it'd come in handy for floating-point applications while > > preserving hash. If only there were a ~= or ≈ operator I could overload. > > And ~ is unary, so no joy. > > Not everything needs to be a built-in, or an operator. This might be > useful for you: > > http://code.activestate.com/recipes/577124-approximately-equal/ > > Feedback welcome. > > -- > Steven
Thanks, Steven. I'd considered and rejected that a while ago, but on reconsideration it's sounding like a better idea. Aside from preserving the semantics of =, it makes the use of approximate equality explicit in the code, and that's a plus for what I'm doing. I'll give it a shot. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
