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Should we use a external package to deal with units ? #5

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lesommer opened this issue May 3, 2016 · 7 comments
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Should we use a external package to deal with units ? #5

lesommer opened this issue May 3, 2016 · 7 comments
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lesommer commented May 3, 2016

We have decided to set automatically the unit of the quantities computed with modelgrids (ex : derivatives). Should we use a external package for computing the new units ? which one ?
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lesommer commented May 3, 2016

some existing packages :
Numericalunits, Pint, Units.

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lesommer commented May 3, 2016

see also : quantities

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lesommer commented May 3, 2016

see also astropy.units

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lesommer commented May 3, 2016 •
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see natu

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lesommer commented May 3, 2016

here is a list of Python packages that deal with units and quantities

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lesommer commented May 3, 2016

current decision : no obvious standart. we should wait.

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lesommer commented Jun 1, 2016

A good option for manipulation units is to use cf_units (which is used in iris) : see here and here.

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