When interfacing with RESTful APIs, it can happen that we need to translate uncertain quantities to/from strings.
I, too, had the idea of simplifying the task of parsing '+/-' as unicode "±" but decided not to because the Python tokenization library treats unknown characters as ERRORTOKEN, which did not seem like a place to go.
Following up on https://github.com/hgrecco/pint/pull/1797:
When interfacing with RESTful APIs, it can happen that we need to translate uncertain quantities to/from strings.
I, too, had the idea of simplifying the task of parsing '+/-' as unicode "±" but decided not to because the Python tokenization library treats unknown characters as ERRORTOKEN, which did not seem like a place to go.