>> Has anyone added special syntax to allow writing numeric literals with
>> physical units? So you can write 12m + 34cm, and would get 12.34m.
...
Georg> normally you wouldn't add units to the language itself.
...
Georg> For the interactive shell, using a wrapper that allows simplified
Georg> input is also a possibility, like IPython's "-profile physics"
Georg> mode, or something like http://bitbucket.org/birkenfeld/phsh/
Georg> which allows you to write
>>>> `1 m` + `12 cm`
Georg> 1.12 m
Also, check out the magnitude module (in PyPI). I use it to specify the
units of the computation but allow users to input values using units which
are meaningful to them. So, for example, if a value has units of time they
could enter 1m or 60s and get the same internal value.
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