On Mon, Aug 29, 2016 at 5:07 PM, Ken Kundert <python-id...@shalmirane.com> wrote: > > I talked to astrophysicist about your comments, and what she said was: > 1. She would love it if Python had built in support for real numbers with SI > scale factors > 2. I told her about my library for reading and writing numbers with SI scale > factors, and she was much less enthusiastic because using it would require > convincing the rest of the group, which would be too much effort. > 3. She was amused by the "kilo pico speed of light" comment, but she was > adamant > that the fact that you, or some system administrator, does not understand > what kpc means has absolutely no affect on her desired to use SI scale > factors. Her comment: I did not write it for him. > 4. She pointed out that the software she writes and uses is intended either > for > herself of other astrophysicists. No system administrators involved.
So can you share some of her code, and show how the ability to scale unitless numbers would help it? ChrisA _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list Python-ideas@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
