On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 11:54 AM, Christopher Barker
<chris.bar...@noaa.gov>wrote:
> Ryan May wrote:
> > use the units in basic_units.py (in the examples/units directory).
>
> This looks like pretty cool stuff. However, I can't seem to find
> matplotlib.units or basic_units.py in the online Sphinx docs. Is this a
> doc bug, or intentional?
>
> There are units examples in the docs.
matplotlib.units maintains the api for registering unit-ed quantities and
various other nuts and bolts. It's another one of those modules whose docs
hasn't been converted to sphinx yet, but it does have doc strings. However,
it does not provide any units itself. basic_units.py is an example with
just a few basic quantities to show off how support in matplotlib works, but
is not itself all that useful.
Darren Dale was working on a full-fledged package for adding units to numpy
arrays called quantities (
http://packages.python.org/quantities/user/tutorial.html), that would (I
think) work with some of this, but last I saw it stalled a little due to
issues with subclassing ndarray. I haven't seen any other simple
packages/modules that suppors general units for the simple goal of doing
conversions for plotting.
Ryan
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Ryan May
Graduate Research Assistant
School of Meteorology
University of Oklahoma
Sent from Norman, Oklahoma, United States
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