From 6ee12b485f00dca24d17f882966ed293125901a5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Brock <jbrockmendel@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2021 13:08:30 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] TYP: testing.pyi

---
 pandas/_libs/testing.pyi     | 8 ++++++++
 pandas/_testing/asserters.py | 8 +++++++-
 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
 create mode 100644 pandas/_libs/testing.pyi

diff --git a/pandas/_libs/testing.pyi b/pandas/_libs/testing.pyi
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..ac0c772780c5c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pandas/_libs/testing.pyi
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+
+
+def assert_dict_equal(a, b, compare_keys: bool = ...): ...
+
+def assert_almost_equal(a, b,
+                        rtol: float = ..., atol: float = ...,
+                        check_dtype: bool = ...,
+                        obj=..., lobj=..., robj=..., index_values=...): ...
diff --git a/pandas/_testing/asserters.py b/pandas/_testing/asserters.py
index 2adc70438cce7..62205b9203bf0 100644
--- a/pandas/_testing/asserters.py
+++ b/pandas/_testing/asserters.py
@@ -154,6 +154,9 @@ def assert_almost_equal(
                 else:
                     obj = "Input"
                 assert_class_equal(left, right, obj=obj)
+
+        # if we have "equiv", this becomes True
+        check_dtype = bool(check_dtype)
         _testing.assert_almost_equal(
             left, right, check_dtype=check_dtype, rtol=rtol, atol=atol, **kwargs
         )
@@ -388,12 +391,15 @@ def _get_ilevel_values(index, level):
             msg = f"{obj} values are different ({np.round(diff, 5)} %)"
             raise_assert_detail(obj, msg, left, right)
     else:
+
+        # if we have "equiv", this becomes True
+        exact_bool = bool(exact)
         _testing.assert_almost_equal(
             left.values,
             right.values,
             rtol=rtol,
             atol=atol,
-            check_dtype=exact,
+            check_dtype=exact_bool,
             obj=obj,
             lobj=left,
             robj=right,