Re: [SciPy-dev] Period table?

CakeProphet wrote:

I think it would be fairly useful if scipy contained a module with the entire period table as a Python data type of some sort with various information (atomic number, mass, etc) of all the elements.

I've thought about that for years, never taking the time to make it happen. The trick is not just to list the elements in a Python dictionary, with physical attributes, but to provide various filter and search operations -- list all metals, nobel elements, given a weight range return the matching set of elements, handle isotope mapping back to their base elements, etc. Designed and documented well, it would be a neat component. -Jeff