[SciPy-Dev] ENH: addition of Rankine conversions in constants #5292

[Joseph Fox-Rabinovitz]

That looks like a good idea. The multitude of old conversion functions
could be either absorbed or made private that way.

On Sat, Feb 13, 2016 at 11:21 AM, Gilles Aouizerate
<gilles.aouizerate at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello Scipy developers,
>
> I recently committed a little enhancement of the scipy.constants module that
> dealt with temperature conversions between the Rankine scale and other
> scales (see #5292). It seems to me that this capability would be useful
> since many scientists and engineers (sadly) keep using the Rankine
> temperature scale, especially in thermodynamics.
>
> Rgommers answered that this was not a bad idea in principle, but that it
> would make the code kind of too heavy: too many temperature conversion
> functions in the module. Therefore he suggested adding a single function of
> the kind convert_temperature(value, old_scale, new_scale) rather than the
> several current functions.
>
> What do you think about that? If there is a consensus I could take care of
> that.
>
> cheers,
>
> Gilles
>
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