Ned Batchelder

I like fuzzy matching so that I don't have to remember the exact punctuation in a file name. But I'm finding that using it completely removes the claimed benefits of...

Is there some way to improve it? It seems a shame to offer a setting which seems to negate the primary claim of the tool (intelligent history).

Hmmm, you can attach files in the UI (https://help.github.com/articles/file-attachments-on-issues-and-pull-requests/), but not in the API? Can that really be? :(

 Is this an attachment?

Hmmm, I played around with getting attachments. I figured I could at least add a link to the GitHub issue, that refers to the attachment on Bitbucket. But the Bitbucket...

@thomthom I think you see the difference ("images embedded into the text"). Markdown can have an image reference. In that case, the text is simply copied over to GitHub, which...

@ideasman42 again, thanks for the quick turnaround, and the fix/workaround. BTW, new in Python 3 is the math.isclose() function which deals with relative epsilon values. That might be helpful.

I hadn't noticed that the two points weren't identical. I can also fix that on my end (https://nedbatchelder.com/blog/201707/finding_fuzzy_floats.html).

On my current data, sometimes this fix works better, and sometimes master works better. ("better" meaning, doesn't fail an assertion.) Have you considered Hypothesis as a tool for testing? I...

I totally agree about not introducing third-party modules that would be required to use the code. This would only be for testing the code. If I get a test written,...