ANN: magnitude 0.9.2
Thomas Heller
theller at ctypes.org
Thu Oct 18 07:43:40 EDT 2007
Joan M. Garcia schrieb:
> Following the feedback on the first release of magnitude it
> has changed enough to deserve a second release, which
> modifies the API, solves a couple of bugs, and brings it in
> line with python's style guide. Main changes:
>
> * imul, idiv had wrong output unit, so that after a /= b
> printing showed wrong units.
>
> * mod's output has the units of the division.
>
> * outputPrecission, defaultFormat and outputUnits are now
> output_precision, default_format and output_units.
>
>
> Magnitude:
>
> A physical quantity is a number with a unit, like 10
> km/h. Units can be any of the SI units, plus a bunch of
> non-SI, bits, dollars, and any combination of them. They can
> include the standard SI prefixes. Magnitude can operate with
> physical quantities, parse their units, and print them. You
> don't have to worry about unit consistency or conversions;
> everything is handled transparently. By default output is
> done in basic SI units, but you can specify any output unit,
> as long as it can be reduced to the basic units of the
> phisical quantity.
>
> Home page: http://juanreyero.com/magnitude/
Three comments, from looking at it:
- "physical", not "phisical" ;-)
- you raise string exceptions in various places; these are deprecated and
should not be used. Also it is very difficult to catch them.
- ScientificPython from Konrad Hinsen also contains a somewhat similar
module. IIRC, it is named PhysicalQuantities. You might look into that
and mention it on the homepage.
Thomas
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