From 31579b3f88b7aeeb82182aca9b0551d48cab37e5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Martin	Diehl <m.diehl@mpie.de>
Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2015 05:59:11 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] tolerances caused problems, introduced new funtionality based
 on np.allclose

---
 lib/damask/test/test.py | 18 ++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+)

diff --git a/lib/damask/test/test.py b/lib/damask/test/test.py
index 08e659648..e1292477d 100644
--- a/lib/damask/test/test.py
+++ b/lib/damask/test/test.py
@@ -382,6 +382,24 @@ class Test():
     logging.info(' ********')
     return maxError
 
+
+  def compare_Table2(self,file0,file1,headings0=None,headings1=None,rtol=1e-5,atol=1e-8):
+    
+    import numpy as np
+    logging.info('comparing ASCII Tables\n %s \n %s'%(file0,file1))
+
+    if headings1 == None: headings1=headings0
+
+    table0 = damask.ASCIItable(file0,readonly=True)
+    table0.head_read()
+    table0.data_readArray(headings0)
+    table1 = damask.ASCIItable(file1,readonly=True)
+    table1.head_read()   
+    table1.data_readArray(headings1)
+
+    return np.allclose(table0.data,table1.data,rtol,atol)
+
+
     
   def compare_TableRefCur(self,headingsRef,ref,headingsCur='',cur='',normHeadings='',normType=None,\
                                                  absoluteTolerance=False,perLine=False,skipLines=[]):