[Python-ideas] [Python-Dev] Issue5434: datetime.monthdelta

[Tennessee Leeuwenburg]

On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 11:52 AM, Aahz <aahz at pythoncraft.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 17, 2009, Tennessee Leeuwenburg wrote:
> >
> >   -- What about other cyclical periods (fortnights, 28 days, lunar
> cycles,
> > high tides)?
>
> That reminds me that we need to add a units module so that we can specify
> furlongs per fortnight!


The Python Papers carried an article about a year back from someone who had
developed a units module, it would be very useful in some circumstances. The
codebase I work on has heaps of faux-units functionality which would be
great to wrap up into more fundamental unit-aware classes.

Cheers,
-T
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