pytest: assert almost equal

Question

How to do assert almost equal with py.test for floats without resorting to something like:

assert x - 0.00001 <= y <= x + 0.00001
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Answer 1

These answers have been around for a long time, but I think the easiest and also most readable way is to use unittest for it's many nice assertions without using it for the testing structure.

Get assertions, ignore rest of unittest.TestCase

(based on this answer)

import unittest

assertions = unittest.TestCase('__init__')

Make some assertions

x = 0.00000001
assertions.assertAlmostEqual(x, 0)  # pass
assertions.assertEqual(x, 0)  # fail
# AssertionError: 1e-08 != 0

Implement original questions' auto-unpacking test

Just use * to unpack your return value without needing to introduce new names.

i_return_tuple_of_two_floats = lambda: (1.32, 2.4)
assertions.assertAlmostEqual(*i_return_tuple_of_two_floats())  # fail
# AssertionError: 1.32 != 2.4 within 7 places