On Mon, Jun 4, 2018 at 1:59 PM, Pål Grønås Drange <paal.dra...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> For the general user-defined literals, here are some example use cases:
>
I kind of like the idea of user-defined literals, but:
> Yes, we could write all these as easily as function calls,
>
> deg(90)
> celsius(20)
> center('my string') # or 'my string'.center(80)
>
> But somehow it seems nicer to write 42_km than 12 * pint.UnitRegistry().km
>
how about?
from pint import km
42*km
still not as nice as 42_km, though only by a bit....
So maybe you could propose adding:
seconds
minutes
hours
days
to the datetime module, and then we could write:
60*seconds == 1*minutes
Without any changes to the language at all.
-CHB
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