Properunits

A simple framework to work with physical magnitudes

Motivation

Properunits does one simple job: it helps you define physical magnitudes in Python using units and automatically convert them to SI units so that downstream calculations are all done consistently.

Properunits does not attempt to do universal unit conversion or tries to implement operations that preserve and transform the units. It is meant to extract numerical values that can be used anywhere without having to worry about unit conversion, while keeping information on the original value and units used.

Status

Properunits is still in development. Please check the documentation in readthedocs.

Quick install

Through pypi:

pip install properunits

Usage

from properunits import Temperature, Pressure

T = Temperature(100, 'C')
p = Pressure(1, 'bar')

print(T.x, T.units) # Return value in SI units.
print(Temperature.list_units()) # Return list of temperature units
print(T.value) # Return the original value, unit

Copyright and license

Properunits is distributed under the terms of MIT License.