Parse Python String for Units

Question

Say I have a set of strings like the following:

\"5 m^2\"
\"17 sq feet\"
\"3 inches\"
\"89 meters\"

Is there a Python package which will read s

Answer 1

Quantulum will do exactly what you described

Excerpt from its description:

from quantulum import parser

quants = parser.parse('I want 2 liters of wine') 

# quants [Quantity(2, 'litre')] 

Answer 2

More recently, pint is a good place to start for most of these.

Answer 3

Is there an extension for ipython that can do at least part of what you want. It's called ipython-physics

It does store value and units and allows (at least) some basic math. I have never used it myself, so I don't know how easy would be to use in a python script