pint 0.8

Quick Installation

To install Pint, simply:

$ pip install pint

or utilizing conda with, the conda-forge channel:

$ conda install -c conda-forge pint

and then simply enjoy it!

Documentation

Full documentation is available at http://pint.readthedocs.org/

Design principles

Although there are already a few very good Python packages to handle physical quantities, no one was really fitting my needs. Like most developers, I programed Pint to scratch my own itches.

• Unit parsing: prefixed and pluralized forms of units are recognized without explicitly defining them. In other words: as the prefix kilo and the unit meter are defined, Pint understands kilometers. This results in a much shorter and maintainable unit definition list as compared to other packages.

• Standalone unit definitions: units definitions are loaded from simple and easy to edit text file. Adding and changing units and their definitions does not involve changing the code.

• Advanced string formatting: a quantity can be formatted into string using PEP 3101 syntax. Extended conversion flags are given to provide latex and pretty formatting.

• Small codebase: small and easy to maintain with a flat hierarchy.

• Dependency free: it depends only on Python and its standard library.

• Python 2 and 3: A single codebase that runs unchanged in Python 2.6+ and Python 3.0+.

• Advanced NumPy support: While NumPy is not a requirement for Pint, when available ndarray methods and ufuncs can be used in Quantity objects.

Pint is written and maintained by Hernan E. Grecco <hernan.grecco@gmail.com>.

Other contributors, listed alphabetically, are:

• Aaron Coleman

• Alexander Böhn <fish2000@gmail.com>

• Ana Krivokapic <akrivokapic1@gmail.com>

• Andrea Zonca <code@andreazonca.com>

• Brend Wanders <b.wanders@utwente.nl>

• choloepus

• coutinho <coutinho@esrf.fr>

• Daniel Sokolowski <daniel.sokolowski@danols.com>

• Dave Brooks <dave@bcs.co.nz>

• David Linke

• Ed Schofield <ed@pythoncharmers.com>

• Eduard Bopp <eduard.bopp@aepsil0n.de>

• Eli <elifab@gmail.com>

• Felix Hummel <felix@felixhummel.de>

• Giel van Schijndel <me@mortis.eu>

• James Rowe <jnrowe@gmail.com>

• Jim Turner <jturner314@gmail.com>

• Joel B. Mohler <joel@kiwistrawberry.us>

• John David Reaver <jdreaver@adlerhorst.com>

• Jonas Olson <jolson@kth.se>

• Kaido Kert <kaidokert@gmail.com>

• Kenneth D. Mankoff <mankoff@gmail.com>

• Kevin Davies <kdavies4@gmail.com>

• Luke Campbell <luke.s.campbell@gmail.com>

• Matthieu Dartiailh <marul@laposte.net>

• Nate Bogdanowicz <natezb@gmail.com>

• Peter Grayson <jpgrayson@gmail.com>

• Richard Barnes <rbarnes@umn.edu>

• Ryan Dwyer <ryanpdwyer@gmail.com>

• Ryan Kingsbury <RyanSKingsbury@alumni.unc.edu>

• Sundar Raman <cybertoast@gmail.com>

• Tiago Coutinho <coutinho@esrf.fr>

• Thomas Kluyver <takowl@gmail.com>

• Tom Ritchford <tom@swirly.com>

• Virgil Dupras <virgil.dupras@savoirfairelinux.com>

(If you think that your name belongs here, please let the maintainer know)

0.8 (2017-04-16)

• Refactored the Registry in multiple classes for better separation of concerns and clarity.

• Implemented support for defining multiple units per define call (one definition per line). (Issue #462)

• In pow and ipow, allow array exponents (with len > 1) when base is dimensionless. (Issue #483)

• Wraps now gets the canonical name of the unit when passed as string. (Issue #468)

• NumPy exp and log keeps the type (Issue #95)

• Implemented a function decorator to ensure that a context is active (with_context) (Issue #465)

• Add warning when a System contains an unknown Group. (Issue #472)

• Add conda-forge installation snippet. (Issue #485, thanks stadelmanma)

• Properly support floor division and modulo. (Issue #474, thanks tecki)

• Measurement Correlated variable fix. (Issue #463, thanks tadhgmister)

• Implement degree sign handling. (Issue #449, thanks iamthad)

• Change UndefinedUnitError to inherit from AttributeError (Issue #480, thanks jhidding)

• Simplified travis for faster testing.

• Fixed order units in siunitx formatting. (Issue #441)

• Changed Systems lister to return a list instead of frozenset. (Issue #425, thanks GloriaVictis)

• Fixed issue with negative values in to_compact() method. (Issue #443, thanks nowox)

• Improved defintions. (Issues #448, thanks gdonval)

• Improved Parser to support capital “E” on scientific notation. (Issue #390, thanks javenoneal)

• Make sure that prefixed units are defined on the registry when unplicking. (Issue #405)

• Automatic unit names translation through babel. (Issue #338, thanks alexbodn)

• Support pickling Unit objects. (Issue #349)

• Add support for wavenumber/kayser in spectroscopy context. (Issue #321, thanks gerritholl)

• Improved formatting. (thanks endolith and others)

• Add support for inline comments in definitions file. (Issue #366)

• Implement Unit.__deepcopy__. (Issue #357, thanks noahl)

• Allow changing shape for Quantities with numpy arrays. (Issue #344, thanks tecki)

0.7.2 (2016-03-02)

• Fixed backward incompatibility problem when parsing dimensionless units.

0.7.1 (2016-02-23)

• Use NIST as source for most of the unit information.

• Added message to assertQuantityEqual.

• Added detection of circular dependencies in definitions.

0.7 (2016-02-20)

• Added Systems and groups. (Issue #215, #315)

• Implemented references for wraps decorator. (Issue #195)

• Added check decorator to UnitRegistry. (Issue #283, thanks kaidokert)

• Added compact conversion. (See #224, thanks Ryan Dwyer)

• Added compact formating code. (Issue #240)

• New Unit Class. (thanks Matthieu Dartiailh)

• Refactor UnitRegistry. (thanks Matthieu Dartiailh)

• Move definitions, errors, and converters into their own modules. (thanks Matthieu Dartiailh)

• UnitsContainer is now immutable (Issue #202, thanks Matthieu Dartiailh)

• New parser and evaluator. (Issue #226, thanks Aaron Coleman)

• Added support for Unicode identifiers.

• Added m_as as way top retrieve the magnitude in different units. (Issue #227)

• Added Short form for magnitude and units. (Issue #234)

• Improved deepcopy. (Issue #252, thanks Emilien Kofman)

• Improved testing infrastructure.

• Improved docs. (thanks Ryan Dwyer, Martin Thoma, Andrea Zonca)

• Fixed short names on electron_volt and hartree.

• Fixed definitions of scruple and drachm. (Issue #262, thanks takowl)

• Fixed troy ounce to 480 ‘grains’. (thanks elifab)

• Added ‘quad’ as a unit of energy (= 10**15 Btu). (thanks Ed Schofield)

• Added “hectare” as a supported unit of area and ‘ha’ as the symbol for hectare. (thanks Ed Schofield)

• Added peak sun hour and Langley. (thanks Ed Schofield)

• Added photometric units: lumen & lux. (Issue #230, thanks janpipek)

• A fraction magnitude quantity is conserved (Issue #323, thanks emilienkofman)

• Improved conversion performance by removing unnecessart try/except. (Issue #251)

• Added to_tuple and from_tuple to facilitate serialization.

• Fixed support for NumPy 1.10 due to a change in the Default casting rule (Issue #320)

• Infrastructure: Added doctesting.

• Infrastructure: Better way to specify exclude matrix in travis.

0.6 (2014-11-07)

• Fix operations with measurments and user defined units. (Issue #204)

• Faster conversions through caching and other performance improvements. (Issue #193, thanks MatthieuDartiailh)

• Better error messages on Quantity.__setitem__. (Issue #191)

• Fixed abbreviation of fluid_ounce. (Issue #187, thanks hsoft)

• Defined Angstrom symbol. (Issue #181, thanks JonasOlson)

• Removed fetching version from git repo as it triggers XCode installation on OSX. (Issue #178, thanks deanishe)

• Improved context documentation. (Issue #176 and 179, thanks rsking84)

• Added Chemistry context. (Issue #179, thanks rsking84)

• Fix help(UnitRegisty) (Issue #168)

• Optimized “get_dimensionality” and “get_base_name”. (Issue #166 and #167, thanks jbmohler)

• Renamed ureg.parse_units parameter “to_delta” to “as_delta” to make clear. that no conversion happens. Accordingly, the parameter/property “default_to_delta” of UnitRegistry was renamed to “default_as_delta”. (Issue #158, thanks dalit)

• Fixed problem when adding two uncertainties. (thanks dalito)

• Full support for Offset units (e.g. temperature) (Issue #88, #143, #147 and #161, thanks dalito)

0.5.2 (2014-07-31)

• Changed travis config to use miniconda for faster testing.

• Added wheel configuration to setup.cfg.

• Ensure resource streams are closed after reading.

• Require setuptools. (Issue #169)

• Implemented real, imag and T Quantity properties. (Issue #171)

• Implemented __int__ and __long__ for Quantity (Issue #170)

• Fixed SI prefix error on ureg.convert. (Issue #156, thanks jdreaver)

• Fixed parsing of multiparemeter contexts. (Issue #174)

0.5.1 (2014-06-03)

• Implemented a standard way to change the registry used in unpickling operations. (Issue #148)

• Fix bug where conversion would fail due to caching. (Issue #140, thanks jdreaver)

• Allow assigning Not a Number to a quantity array. (Issue #127)

• Decoupled Quantity in place and not in place unit conversion methods.

• Return None in functions that modify quantities in place.

• Improved testing infrastructure to check for unwanted warnings.

• Added test function at the package level to run all tests.

0.5 (2014-05-07)

• Improved test suite helper functions.

• Print honors default format w/o format(). (Issue #132, thanks mankoff)

• Fixed sum() by treating number zero as a special case. (Issue #122, thanks rec)

• Improved behaviour in ScaleConverter, OffsetConverter and Quantity.to. (Issue #120)

• Reimplemented loading of default definitions to allow Pint in a cx_freeze or similar package. (Issue #118, thanks jbmohler)

• Implemented parsing of pretty printed units. (Issue #117, thanks jpgrayson)

• Fixed representation of dimensionless quantities. (Issue #112, thanks rec)

• Raise error when invalid formatting code is given. (Issue #111, thanks rec)

• Default registry to lazy load, raise error on redefinition (Issue #108, thanks rec, aepsil0n)

• Added condensed format. (Issue #107, thanks rec)

• Added UnitRegistry () operator to parse expression replacing []. (Issue #106, thanks rec)

• Optional case insensitive unit parsing. (Issue #105, thanks rec, jeremyfreeman, dbrnz)

• Change the Quantity mutability depending on magnitude type. (Issue #104, thanks rec)

• Implemented API to list compatible units. (Issue #89)

• Implemented cache of key UnitRegistry methods.

• Rewrote the Measurement class to use uncertainties. (Issue #24)

0.4.2 (2014-02-14)

• Python 2.6 support (Issue #96, thanks tiagocoutinho)

• Fixed symbol for inch. (Issue #102, thanks cybertoast)

• Stop raising AttributeError when wrapping funcs without all of the attributes. (Issue #100, thanks jturner314)

• Fixed warning appearing in Py2.x when comparing a Numpy Array with an empty string. (Issue #98, thanks jturner314)

• Add links to AUR packages in docs. (Issue #91, thanks jturner314)

• Fixed garbage collection related problem. (Issue #92, thanks jturner314)

0.4.1 (2014-01-12)

• Integer Division with Arrays. (Issue #80, thanks jdreaver)

• Improved Documentation. (Issue #83, thanks choloepus)

• Removed ‘h’ alias for hour due to conflict with Planck’s constant. (Issue #82, thanks choloepus)

• Improved get_base_units for non-multiplicative units. (Issue #85, thanks exxus)

• Refactored code for multiplication. (Issue #84, thanks jturner314)

• Removed ‘R’ alias for roentgen as it collides with molar_gas_constant. (Issue #87, thanks rsking84)

• Improved naming of temperature units and multiplication of non-multiplicative units. (Issue #86, tahsnk exxus)

0.4 (2013-12-17)

• Introduced Contexts: relation between incompatible dimensions. (Issue #65)

• Fixed get_base_units for non multiplicative units. (Related to issue #66)

• Implemented default formatting for quantities.

• Changed comparison between Quantities containing NumPy arrays. (Issue #75) - BACKWARDS INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE

• Fixes for NumPy 1.8 due to changes in handling binary ops. (Issue #73)

0.3.3 (2013-11-29)

• ParseHelper can now parse units named like python keywords. (Issue #69)

• Fix comparison of quantities. (Issue #74)

• Fix Inequality operator. (Issue #70, thanks muggenhor)

• Improved travis configuration. (thanks muggenhor)

0.3.2 (2013-10-22)

• Fix get_dimensionality for non multiplicative units. (Issue #66)

• Proper handling of @import directive inside a file read using pkg_resources. (Issue #68)

0.3.1 (2013-09-15)

• fix right division on python 2.7 (Issue #58, thanks natezb)

• fix formatting of fractional exponentials between 0 and 1. (Issue #62, thanks jdreaver)

• fix installation as egg. (Issue #61)

• fix handling of strange values as input of Quantity. (Issue #53)

• math operations between quantities of different registries now raise a ValueError. (Issue #52)

0.3 (2013-09-02)

• support for IPython autocomplete and rich display. (Issues #30 and #31)

• support for @import directive in definitions file. (Issue #22)

• support for wrapping functions to make them pint-aware. (Issue #16)

• support for comparing UnitsContainer to string. (Issue #35)

• fix error raised while converting from a single unit to one expressed as the relation between many. (Issue #29)

• fix error raised when unit symbol is missing. (Issue #41)

• fix error raised when magnitude is Decimal. (Issue #46, thanks danielsokolowski)

• support for non-installed pint. (Issue #42, thanks danielsokolowski)

• support for application of numpy function on non-ndarray magnitudes. (Issue #44)

• support for math operations on dimensionless Quantities (written with units). (Issue #45)

• fix obtaining dimensionless quantity from string. (Issue #50)

• fix adding and comparing numbers to a dimensionless quantity (written with units). (Issue #54)

• Support for iter in Quantity. (Issue #55, thanks natezb)

0.2.1 (2013-07-02)

• fix error raised while converting from a single unit to one expressed as the relation between many. (Issue #29)

0.2 (2013-05-13)

• support for Measurement (Quantity +/- error).

• implemented buckingham pi theorem for dimensional analysis.

• support for temperature units and temperature difference units.

• parser can infers if the user mean temperature or temperature difference.

• support for derived dimensions (e.g. [speed] = [length] / [time]).

• refactored the code into multiple files.

• refactored code to isolate definitions and converters.

• refactored formatter out of UnitParser class.

• added tox and travis config files for CI.

• comprehensive NumPy testing including almost all ufuncs.

• full NumPy support (features is not longer experimental).

• fixed bug preventing from having independent registries. (Issue #10, thanks bwanders)

• forces real division as default for Quantities. (Issue #7, thanks dbrnz)

• improved default unit definition file. (Issue #13, thanks r-barnes)

• smarter parser supporting spaces as multiplications and other nice features. (Issue #13, thanks r-barnes)

• moved testsuite inside package.

• short forms of binary prefixes, more units and fix to less than comparison. (Issue #20, thanks muggenhor)

• pint is now zip-safe (Issue #23, thanks muggenhor)

Version 0.1.3 (2013-01-07)

• abbreviated quantity string formating.

• complete Python 2.7 compatibility.

• implemented pickle support for Quantities objects.

• extended NumPy support.

• various bugfixes.

Version 0.1.2 (2012-08-12)

• experimenal NumPy support.

• included default unit definitions file. (Issue #1, thanks fish2000)

• better testing.

• various bugfixes.

• fixed some units definitions. (Issue #4, thanks craigholm)

Version 0.1.1 (2012-07-31)

• better packaging and installation.

Version 0.1 (2012-07-26)

• first public release.