[Python-ideas] real numbers with SI scale factors

[Mark Lawrence]

On 29/08/2016 13:35, Stephan Houben wrote:
> Note that the Sage computer algebra system uses Python with some
> syntactic changes implemented by a "pre-parser".
>
> The current proposal could be implemented in a similar way and then
> integrated in, say, Ipython.
>
> If it would prove to be wildly popular, then it would make a stronger
> case for incorporation in the core.
>
> Stephan
>
>
> Op 29 aug. 2016 2:12 p.m. schreef "Mark Lawrence via Python-ideas"
> <python-ideas at python.org
> <mailto:python-ideas at python.org>>:
>
>     On 29/08/2016 02:44, Ken Kundert wrote:
>
>
>         Changing Python so that it understands SI scale factors on real
>         numbers as first
>         class citizens innately requires a change to the base language;
>         it cannot be
>         done solely through libraries.  The question before you is,
>         should we do it?
>
>     No, no, no, if the people who provide this http://www.scipy.org/ can
>     do without it.
>
>     Now would you please be kind enough to give up with this dead horse
>     before I take a ride to the Clifton Suspension Bridge or Beachy
>     Head, whichever is closest.
>

As iPython is a core part of scipy, which I linked above, why would the 
developers want to incorporate this suggestion?  I'd have also thought 
that if this idea was to be "wildly popular" it would have been done 
years ago.

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what you can do for our language.

Mark Lawrence