2009/9/4 William Stein <[email protected]>: > 2009/9/4 Maurizio <[email protected]>: >>> Feature request -- can you make it so the *docstring* for the variable >>> can be specified? I will have to do this soon anyways if you don't, >>> since it is needed for the units package. >>> >>> E.g., >>> >>> meter = var('meter', docstring="A meter is...", latex_name="m") >>> >> >> By the way, which is the status of the units package? Is the code >> somewhere on the net? I'm quite curious! :) >> >> Regards >> >> Maurizio > > David spent the last few weeks making a documented table of > "essentially all known units" along with conversions between them, > definitions of them, etc. Then we wrote code to automate conversions, > automate creating symbolic variables corresponding to them, etc. > It's all in a Sage worksheet, so not posted or ready to use in Sage > via a patch yet.
Here is said worksheet: http://wstein.org/home/wstein/tmp/Units_List.sws William --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send an email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
