units-of-measure 0.0.1rc1

Units of Measure

Units of Measure

as defined in Unit of Measurement.

• Python library: units-of-measure
• Python package: unitsofmeasure

Objective

1. Relate units of measure to the International System of Units (SI) to define their dimension and magnitude.
2. Relate objects to units. Currently, some types of objects cannot be mapped to units, because that would create error-prone states.
3. Get the unit that an object is mapped to.

Motivation

First, I used the library forallpeople, but that ran into issues with large scales like megatonnes and gigatonnes.

Based on my objectives I decided to create a new library that does exactly that and does not deal with quantities (yet).

Get Started

To start from the beginning, open the Jupyter notebook start_here.ipynb. This link is relative, so it might not work in all contexts.

There is no dependency to the package jupyter, neither at buildtime nor at runtime. Consequently this library does not declare jupyter as dependency. You can view the notebook on GitHub or in Visual Studio Code. Beyond that there are several alternatives to view notebooks. If you want to run or edit it, then you need something like package jupyter or Miniconda.

Download and install the library with python -m pip install units-of-measure.

Develop

1. Clone with git clone https://github.com/gerald-scharitzer/units-of-measure.git
2. Test with pytest
3. Document with pydoc -w unitsofmeasure
4. Build with python -m build
5. Check with python -m twine check dist/*
6. Publish with python -m twine upload dist/*