[Python-ideas] real numbers with SI scale factors

[Ken Kundert]

Guido,
    I am in the process of summarizing the discussion as a way of wrapping this
up. As part of that I will be making a proposal that I think has a chance of
being accepted, and it will largely be what you suggest.

-Ken


On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 11:59:19AM -0700, Guido van Rossum wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 11:48 AM, Ken Kundert
> <python-ideas at shalmirane.com> wrote:
> > [...] Similarly when people refer to the length of
> > the Olympic road race in Rio, they say 56km, not 56000m.
> 
> However I can't help to point out that if I said the distance to the
> sun is 149.6 Gm, most people would do a double-take.
> 
> > This is really only an issue with output.
> 
> So maybe the proposal should be toned down to just a way to request SI
> units when formatting numbers?
> 
> -- 
> --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido)