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

If you have access to NumPy it has great functions for floating point comparison that already do pairwise comparison with numpy.testing.

Then you can do something like:

numpy.testing.assert_allclose(i_return_tuple_of_two_floats(), (1.32, 2.4))