dsiUnits 2.2.3

This is a Python module for handling the SI units as objects in Python, parsing them from strings and converting them to Latex and Unicode, as well as performing math operations and calculating scale factors.

D-SI Parser

This library converts D-SI unit strings to Latex. And is able to perform math operations *, / and power with the D-SI units as well as checken weather teh can be converted into each other with scalar multiplication

Installation

pip install dsiUnits

Usage

The Constructor dsiUnit(str) will parse the string and create a dsiUnit object. The dsiUnit object has the following methods:

• toLatex(): returns the Latex representation of the unit
• toUTF8(): returns the UTF8 representation of the unit
• isScalablyEqualTo(other): checks whether the unit is equal to another unit with scalar multiplication

And following magic functions:

• __mul__(other): "*" multiplies the unit with another unit or a scalar

• __truediv__(other): "/" divides the unit by another unit or a scalar

• __pow__(other): "**" raises the unit to the power of another unit or a scalar

• __eq__(other): "==" checks whether the unit is equal to another unit

• __str__: "str()" returns the string representation of the unit

• __repr__: returns the string representation of the unit

• toBaseUnitTree(): returns the base unit tree of the unit

• reduceFraction(): reduces the fraction of the unit by resolving all \per and combining same units by exponent addition

• sortTree(): sorts the base unit tree of the unit

from dsiUnits import dsiUnit

unit = dsiUnit('\metre\second\tothe{-1}')
latexStr=unit.toLatex()
print(latexStr)

from dsiUnits import dsiUnit

mps = dsiUnit(r'\metre\second\tothe{-1}')
kmh = dsiUnit(r'\kilo\metre\per\hour')
scaleFactor, baseUnit = mps.isScalablyEqualTo(kmh)
print("The unit "+str(mps)+" is equal to "+str(kmh)+" with a factor of "+scaleFactor+" and base unit "+str(baseUnit))

For more usage examples see the Example Notebook, as well as the pytest file.