Brian McCall writes: >>>> Steven d'Aprano writes: > > you have shown nothing to justify why unit support must be built > > into the language itself. > > I did what I could, but I'm not going to try and justify any more.
That makes me sad, because everybody in the thread acknowledges that improving the Python distribution's support for units is a good idea, but nobody is as enthusiastic about getting it done as you. Chris Barker's comments about multiple attractive library implementations are well-taken, I think, but I also think that with more focus on getting a satisfactory module into the stdlib, it would be quite possible to pick one that doesn't rely on non-stdlib types (so I guess astropy.units would be out). That doesn't directly get you the literal syntax for units you focus on, but if units are easier to use, more applications will use them, and perhaps build up momentum for a syntax change. And the syntax change is useless without the library. _______________________________________________ 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/GWOWO4SB5SMKZNKYJXELWGP74LSYH3Y6/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
