Re: ANN: magnitude 0.9.1

2007-10-18 Thread juan
> A further issue, that requires a change of interface: Please comply > with PEP 8 http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/> for your > module interface. In particular, please name classes with TitleCase, > and functions, methods, and instance names with > lower_case. Done, almost. I should have

Re: ANN: magnitude 0.9.1

2007-10-18 Thread Joan M. Garcia
George Sakkis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Oct 16, 7:35 am, Laurent Pointal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> How does it compare to the scalar module ? >> (seehttp://russp.us/scalar.htm) > > or the Unum module (http://home.scarlet.be/be052320/Unum.html) ? Both scalar and unum treat units as variables.

Re: ANN: magnitude 0.9.1

2007-10-16 Thread George Sakkis
On Oct 16, 7:35 am, Laurent Pointal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > How does it compare to the scalar module ? > (seehttp://russp.us/scalar.htm) or the Unum module (http://home.scarlet.be/be052320/Unum.html) ? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: ANN: magnitude 0.9.1

2007-10-16 Thread Ben Finney
Laurent Pointal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : > > I am happy to announce the first release of magnitude, a library > > for computing with physical quantities. It is released under the > > Apache v. 2 license. > > [...] > > Home page: http://juanreyero.com/magnitude/ >

Re: ANN: magnitude 0.9.1

2007-10-16 Thread Laurent Pointal
[EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : > I am happy to announce the first release of magnitude, a > library for computing with physical quantities. It is > released under the Apache v. 2 license. > > A physical quantity is a number with a unit, like 10 > km/h. Units can be any of the SI units, plus a bunch o

Re: ANN: magnitude 0.9.1

2007-10-16 Thread Ben Finney
Ben Finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > A further issue, that requires a change of interface: Please comply > with PEP 8 http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/> for your > module interface. In particular, please name classes with TitleCase, > and functions, methods, and instance names with lowe

Re: ANN: magnitude 0.9.1

2007-10-16 Thread Ben Finney
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joan M. Garcia) writes: > Ben Finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Please don't ever recommend 'from foo import *' in end-user > > documentation. [...] > > Got it, and solved. Thanks. Thanks for the quick response. A further issue, that requires a change of interface: Plea

Re: ANN: magnitude 0.9.1

2007-10-16 Thread juan
Ben Finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Please don't ever recommend 'from foo import *' in end-user > documentation. It's generally a bad practice and should only be done > when the individual programmer understands the tradeoffs involved; > putting it in the documentation for a module is setting

Re: ANN: magnitude 0.9.1

2007-10-16 Thread Joan M. Garcia
Ben Finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Please don't ever recommend 'from foo import *' in end-user > documentation. It's generally a bad practice and should only be done > when the individual programmer understands the tradeoffs involved; > putting it in the documentation for a module is setting

Re: ANN: magnitude 0.9.1

2007-10-16 Thread Ben Finney
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I am happy to announce the first release of magnitude, a library for > computing with physical quantities. It is released under the Apache > v. 2 license. Thanks for this module, it will be good to have a standard place for these constants. > Home page: http://juanrey

ANN: magnitude 0.9.1

2007-10-16 Thread juan
I am happy to announce the first release of magnitude, a library for computing with physical quantities. It is released under the Apache v. 2 license. A physical quantity is a number with a unit, like 10 km/h. Units can be any of the SI units, plus a bunch of non-SI, bits, dollars, and any combina