report_diff_values

astropy.utils.diff.report_diff_values(a, b, fileobj=<_io.TextIOWrapper name='<stdout>' mode='w' encoding='utf-8'>, indent_width=0, rtol=0.0, atol=0.0)

Write a diff report between two values to the specified file-like object.

Parameters:

a, b

Values to compare. Anything that can be turned into strings and compared using difflib should work.

fileobjobject

File-like object to write to. The default is sys.stdout, which writes to terminal.

indent_widthpython:int

Character column(s) to indent.

rtol, atolpython:float

Relative and absolute tolerances as accepted by numpy.allclose().

Returns:

identicalbool

True if no diff, else False.