On 25 August 2016 at 06:06, Paul Moore <p.f.mo...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 25 August 2016 at 09:54, Ken Kundert <python-id...@shalmirane.com> wrote: >> 1G -> 1e+09 >> 1M -> 1e+06 >> 1k -> 1e+03 > > While these suffixes are suitable for a scientific context, in a > computing context, 1k=1024, 1M=1024*1024 and 1G=1024*1024*1024 make > just as much, if not more, sense (and yes, I'm aware of Gigabyte vs > Gibibyte). > > If "1M" were a legal Python literal,. I would expect a lot of > confusion over what it meant - to the extent that it would hurt > readability badly. > Paul
So, the idea of adding fixed sufixes to the core language I regard as awful - due to these and other considerations - But maybe, oen thign to think about is about "operatorless" multiplication - jsut puting two tokens side by side, which currently yieds a Syntax Error could call `__mul__` (or a new `__direct_mul__` method on the second operator. That would enable a lot of interesting things in already existing packages like SymPy - and would allow a "physics measurements" packages that would take care of the ideas on the starting of the thread. I certainly would be more confortable for mathematicians and other people using Python in interactive environments such as iPython notebooks. But other than having this as a multiplication, I am against the whole thing. _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list Python-ideas@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
