[yt-dev] Update on Windows
John ZuHone
jzuhone at gmail.com
Tue Dec 31 17:08:22 PST 2013
My apologies--Nathan has informed me that test definitely came in unitrefactor. Not sure how I did that, because I don't remember merging it in. However, my mercurial skills are still slightly less than kung-fu.
Anyway, happy new year!
John ZuHone
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> On Dec 31, 2013, at 7:51 PM, Nathan Goldbaum <nathan12343 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi John,
>
> If you take a look at Matt's fork, you'll see that I recently updated that unit test to compare to 12 decimal places instead of requiring bitwise identicality. See this PR: https://bitbucket.org/MatthewTurk/yt/pull-request/6/unit-consistency-enzo-cosmology-units/diff
>
> I think if you merge with Matt (specifically, the unitrefactor bookmark on https://bitbucket.org/MatthewTurk/yt) that issue should go away. Not sure if new issues will crop up.
>
> -Nathan
>
>
>> On Tue, Dec 31, 2013 at 3:45 PM, John Zuhone <jzuhone at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Good news on the Windows/yt front. I'm happy to announce that as of
>> right now only one unit test is failing. The failure is subtle, but I
>> thought I would run it by you all to see what we should do about it.
>>
>> The failure in question is a comparison test in
>> yt/utilities/tests/test_units.py, in "test_power":
>>
>> assert u2.cgs_value == (pc_cgs**2 * mK_cgs**4)**2
>>
>> basically, the unit cgs_value is exactly the combination of these
>> factors, so even though they are floats, one would expect that the
>> equality should hold, and on our other platforms it does. However, on
>> Windows, the comparison is failing on the last digit, with a relative
>> difference of ~4e-16 between the two values. So, while I'm not
>> inclined to be very concerned about it, I'm curious to see what you
>> guys think about how it should be handled.
>>
>> Happy New Year!
>>
>> John Z
>>
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>> John ZuHone
>>
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>>
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