Using handcalcs with pint

[av1dm]

Hello,

I wanted to share my default setup for using handcalcs together with pint.

Pint can be a useful alternative to forallpeople, if some "advanced" options are needed.
The main reason, I started using pint is to work with fixed prefixes.
Here is my default setup to achieve this:

from handcals import render
from pint import UnitRegistry

ureg = UnitRegistry(autoconvert_to_preferred = True)
preferred_units = [
    ureg.mm,
    ureg.kg,
    ureg.s, 
    ureg.K,
    ureg.kN,
    ureg.W,
    ureg.MPa
]

ureg.default_preferred_units = preferred_units

mm  = ureg.mm
kN  = ureg.kN
MPa = ureg.MPa

handcalcs.set_option("preferred_string_formatter", "~L")

[connorferster]

@av1dm Thanks for posting this!

[cream68]

I'm having trouble using handcalcs with pint outside of Jupyter Notebooks. Specifically, I cannot import render with from handcalcs import render in my regular Python script, which prevents me from using set_option.

Does handcalcs and pint inside regular python support usage of set_option ? If so, how can I enable this functionality in a standard Python environment?

[av1dm]

I'm having trouble using handcalcs with pint outside of Jupyter Notebooks. Specifically, I cannot import render with from handcalcs import render in my regular Python script, which prevents me from using set_option.

Does handcalcs and pint inside regular python support usage of set_option ? If so, how can I enable this functionality in a standard Python environment?

How do you want to render in your regular Python environment?! Handcalcs is for using with Jupyter.