engineering-notation 0.2.1

Easy engineering notation


# Purpose

To easily work with human-readable engineering notation. I wrote this as a quick tool for my own use. I found that I was writing the same functionality into multiple packages and would like a quick pip-installable package to take care of this manipulation for me. The package should be easily extended for other use cases. The package is unit-less, so only operates on numeric values. Unit detection may be added in future versions.

# Installation

Install using pip: pip install engineering_notation.

# Status

This project currently has 100% test coverage. Have a look in test/test.py for examples of how to use this library.

# Use

There are multiple ways of initializing a number to a particular value, but a string is the preferred method:

` >>> from engineering_notation import EngNumber >>> EngNumber('10k') 10k >>> EngNumber('10000') 10k >>> EngNumber(10000) 10k >>> EngNumber(10000.0) 10k >>> EngNumber(1e4) 10k `

Where decimals are involved, we use a default precision of 2 digits:

` >>> EngNumber('4.99k') 4.99k >>> EngNumber('4.9k') 4.90k `

This behavior can truncate your results in some cases, and cause your number to round. To specify more or less digits, simply specify the precision in the declaration:

` >>> EngNumber('4.999k') 5k >>> EngNumber('4.999k', precision=3) 4.999k `

Most operations that you would perform on numeric values are valid, although all operations are not implemented:

` >>> EngNumber('2.2k') * 2 4.40k >>> 2 * EngNumber('2.2k') 4.40k >>> EngNumber(1.2) > EngNumber('3.3k') False >>> EngNumber(1.2) <= EngNumber('3.3k') True >>> EngNumber('3.3k') == EngNumber(3300) True `

All of the above operations are also possible on the EngUnit() class as well. The only difference is that units must match for addition/subtraction/comparison operations. Although multiplication and division operations will work numerically, they may not always be strictly correct. This is because EngUnit is not intended to replace a computer algebra system!

` >>> EngUnit('2s') / EngUnit('4rotations') 0.5s/rotations `

Additionally, since there are ‘reserved’ letters for sizing the number, you must be careful with your units!

` >>> EngUnit('2mm') 2mm # <<< this value equivalent to "0.002m" >>> EngUnit('2meter') 2meter # <<< this value is equivalent to "0.002eter", the "m" was used to scale the unit! `

# Contributions

Contributions are welcome. Feel free to make feature requests in the issues.