On Mon, 4 Apr 2022 at 07:45, Ethan Furman <et...@stoneleaf.us> wrote: > Mechanically, are `lbs`, `km`, `hr`, etc., something that is imported, or are > they tags attached to the numbers? If > attached to the numbers, memory size would increase and performance might > decrease -- but, how often do we have a number > that is truly without a unit? > > How old are you? 35 years > How much do you weigh? 300 kg > What temperature do you cook bread at? 350 F >
Very frequently - it'd be called an index. (What sort of numbers should enumerate() return, for instance? Clearly that, whatever it is, is an index.) But if every int and float has a tag attached to it, it's not that big a deal to have either a default tag, or leave the field NULL or None, to define it to be a unitless value or index. ChrisA _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/7LTKMLQFJHQYU2TGQCPYBXXX6472M3H7/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
