Re: [matplotlib-devel] Units issue

On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 1:01 PM, Ryan May <rm...@gm...> wrote:

> On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 11:54 AM, Christopher Barker <
> Chr...@no...> wrote:
>
>> Ryan May wrote:
>> > use the units in basic_units.py  (in the examples/units directory).
>>
>> This looks like pretty cool stuff. However, I can't seem to find
>> matplotlib.units or basic_units.py in the online Sphinx docs. Is this a
>> doc bug, or intentional?
>>
>> There are units examples in the docs.
>
>
> matplotlib.units maintains the api for registering unit-ed quantities and
> various other nuts and bolts.  It's another one of those modules whose docs
> hasn't been converted to sphinx yet, but it does have doc strings.  However,
> it does not provide any units itself.  basic_units.py is an example with
> just a few basic quantities to show off how support in matplotlib works, but
> is not itself all that useful.
>
> Darren Dale was working on a full-fledged package for adding units to numpy
> arrays called quantities (
> http://packages.python.org/quantities/user/tutorial.html), that would (I
> think) work with some of this, but last I saw it stalled a little due to
> issues with subclassing ndarray. I haven't seen any other simple
> packages/modules that suppors general units for the simple goal of doing
> conversions for plotting.
>

Thanks for the mention, Ryan. The package hasn't really stalled due to
limitation with numpy (although there are some that I would like to
address), its just that I have been too busy with other things to work on
it. I am planning to continue again in June.

Darren