[Python-ideas] real numbers with SI scale factors

[Brendan Barnwell]

On 2016-08-29 00:07, Ken Kundert wrote:
>> >I completely believe Ken that within a single tightly focussed user
>> >community, using their expected conventions (including SI prefixes)
>> >works really well. But Python users do not belong to a single tightly
>> >focussed user community.
> You think that Python is only used by generalists?  That is silly. Have you seen
> SciPy? If you think that, take a look at Casa (casaguides.nrao.edu). It is
> written by astrophysicists for astrophysicists doing observations on radio
> telescope arrays. That is pretty specialized.

	I think you misunderstand.  My position (reiterated by the text you 
quote from Steven D'Aprano) is not that Python is used only by 
generalists.  It is that we shouldn't change Python in a way that ONLY 
helps specialists.

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Brendan Barnwell
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