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Dimensional analysis
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#!/usr/bin/python | |
class Unit(object): | |
def __init__(self, value=0.0, unit={}): | |
self.value = value | |
self.unit = unit | |
@staticmethod | |
def check(unit1, unit2): | |
p1 = [ (name, unit1[name]) for name in sorted(unit1.keys()) ] | |
p2 = [ (name, unit2[name]) for name in sorted(unit2.keys()) ] | |
if len(p1) != len(p2): | |
return True | |
else: | |
for i in range(len(p1)): | |
if p1[i][0] != p2[i][0] or p1[i][1] != p2[i][1]: | |
return False | |
return True | |
@staticmethod | |
def union(u1, u2, increase=True): | |
result = u1.copy() | |
m = (-1, 1)[increase] | |
for name, exponent in u2.items(): | |
if result.has_key(name): | |
result[name] += m * exponent | |
else: | |
result[name] = m * exponent | |
if result[name] == 0: | |
result.pop(name) | |
return result | |
def unit_name(self, joiner=' ', html=False): | |
return joiner.join([ "%s%s" % (name, (('^%r', '<sup>%r</sup>')[html] % exponent, '')[not not exponent == 1]) for name, exponent in sorted(self.unit.items(), lambda y, x : cmp(x[1], y[1])) ]) | |
def __eq__(self, other): | |
if self.value != other.value: | |
return False | |
else: | |
return Unit.check(self.unit, other.unit) | |
def __add__(self, other): | |
if not Unit.check(self.unit, other.unit): | |
raise TypeError("Incompatible units.") | |
return Unit(self.value + other.value, self.unit) | |
def __sub__(self, other): | |
if not Unit.check(self.unit, other.unit): | |
raise TypeError("Incompatible units.") | |
return Unit(self.value - other.value, self.unit) | |
def __mul__(self, other): | |
return Unit(self.value * other.value, Unit.union(self.unit, other.unit)) | |
def __div__(self, other): | |
return Unit(self.value / other.value, Unit.union(self.unit, other.unit, False)) | |
def __repr__(self): | |
return "%r %s" % (self.value, self.unit_name()) | |
print "1kWh =", Unit(1000, { 'J': 1, 's': -1 }) * Unit(3600, { 's': 1 }) |
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