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Make your functions units-aware with Pint 0.3

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Pint is Python package to define, operate and manipulate physical quantities : the product of a numerical value and a unit of measurement. It allows arithmetic operations between them and conversions from and to different units. >>> from pint import UnitRegistry >>> ureg = UnitRegistry() >>> q1 = 24. * ureg.meter >>> q2 = 10. * ureg.centimeters >>> q1 + q2 <Quantity(24.1, 'meter')> It provides a comprehensive and extensive list of physical units, prefixes and constants defined in a standalone text file. The registry can parse prefixed and pluralized forms of units resulting in a much shorter and maintainable unit definition list. It also provides great NumPy integration, with implicit unit conversion and an emphasis on correctness. >>> import numpy as np >>> np.cos([0, 45] * ureg.degrees) <Quantity([ 1. 0.70710678], 'dimensionless')> >>> np.cos([0, 45] * ureg.meter) Traceb