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tbekolay / quantities-comparison

Comparisons of Python packages for representing physical quantities.
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Updated link to the talk #8

Closed costerwi closed 9 years ago

costerwi commented 9 years ago

Thanks for compiling this and making it available!

I suspect some of the results may already be out of date. I noticed, for example, that astropy.units.Quantity is a subclass of np.ndarray. Unfortunately, I am using Python3 and it's too much effort to re-run the comparisons today.

tbekolay commented 9 years ago

Yes, you're right, a lot needs to be updated. Probably this repo needs a rewrite from scratch; for example, now that I'm much more comfortable with py.test, I think a better approach would be to use fixtures to test all the various quantities packages, and let py.test collect the results with assertions and whatnot.

This is all time permitting of course; this seems to be the story of quantities in Python. Everyone is willing to put in an impressive amount of time, but somehow not the extreme amount of time that is really necessary.

In any case, thanks for updating the link! :rainbow: