Unit Conversion in Python

Question

I\'m working on a project that lets users track different data types over time. Part of the base idea is that a user should be able to enter data using any units that they n

Answer 1

There is another package called unyt from the yt-project. The authors of unyt acknowledge the existence of Pint and astropy.units. Conversions from and to these other packages is supported.

The selling point of unyt is speed. It is faster than the other two. The unit packages are compared in several benchmarks in this paper.

The benchmarks are disappointing for anyone obsessed with performance. :-( The slowdown of calculations with any of these unit systems is large. The slowdown factor is 6-10 for arrays with 1000 entries (worse for smaller arrays).

Disclaimer: I am not affiliated with unyt, I just want to share what I learned about unit systems.