[yt-dev] Issue #776: Getting things into units is not easy (yt_analysis/yt)
Matthew Turk
issues-reply at bitbucket.org
Fri Feb 7 08:27:54 PST 2014
New issue 776: Getting things into units is not easy
https://bitbucket.org/yt_analysis/yt/issue/776/getting-things-into-units-is-not-easy
Matthew Turk:
We should have an easier way to get things into units.
This currently fails (which is an actual bug):
```
#!python
UnitFulObject - 1.0 * UnitFulObject.units
```
But in general, we need an easier way to manage times where the units are tricky, or nasty, or whatever. It would be nice to have something *like* dimensionless that is a "passthrough unit." Like an "any_unit." So I should be able to do:
```
#!python
UnitFulObject - 1.0 * any_unit
```
and the system will see any_unit, convert to the units of the `other_array` and then pass through. This would get around some of the issues that we run into in many instances.
Responsible: ngoldbaum
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