I think what you want is the traits package from SciPy (from Enthought).

Paper here:
http://python.fyxm.net/pycon/papers/traits.html

Unfortunately, the code has moved, and I don't know where it has gone.

Laura


In a message of Tue, 15 Feb 2005 21:51:34 +0100, Christian Mascher writes:
<snip>
>I think as a physicist, don't know how they do it in finances.
>
>BTW, how does one express units of measure in Python/programming? 
>Calculations in applications aren't just about numbers. For instance, 
>how could one express equations like
>       10000 cm^2 == 1 m^2
>       1000 g == 0.001 t
>in a programming language? Another point would be the inclusion of a 
>measure of accuracy:
>For a physicist or engineer
>       1 cm != 1.00 cm
>because the first could be 0.9 cm, the second couldn't, beeing more 
>accurate.
>
>Greetings,
>
>Christian

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