Bug#992999: ITP: unyt -- Python package for handling numpy arrays with units.

[Alastair McKinstry <mckinstry@debian.org>]

It would be good to clarify. There is another package I maintain in 
Debian, udunits, thats a C library but also provides a "canonical" units 
database. It would be good not to  duplicate (reuse libudunits-data in 
unyt etc ?)


On 26/08/2021 10:51, Ole Streicher wrote:
> On 26.08.21 11:36, Alastair McKinstry wrote:
> > How does this interact with xarray, etc?
>
> I don't know; the reason to package it is that it is a new requirement 
> of the "yt" package. It was first developed within yt, and then 
> separated. There is another attempt to use units in the "astropy" 
> package; as far as I know they are not compatible.
>
> A quick search however brings up
>
> https://github.com/pydata/xarray/issues/525
>
> with some long-lasting, unresolved discussion of the situation.

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