[Python-ideas] real numbers with SI scale factors

[Guido van Rossum]

On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 11:48 AM, Ken Kundert
<python-ideas at shalmirane.com> wrote:
> [...] Similarly when people refer to the length of
> the Olympic road race in Rio, they say 56km, not 56000m.

However I can't help to point out that if I said the distance to the
sun is 149.6 Gm, most people would do a double-take.

> This is really only an issue with output.

So maybe the proposal should be toned down to just a way to request SI
units when formatting numbers?

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--Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido)