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I’m using the great quantities package for Python. I would like to know how I can get at just the numerical value of the quantity, without the unit.
I.e., if I have
E = 5.3*quantities.joule
I would like to get at just the 5.3. I know I can simply divide by the “undesired” unit, but hoping there was a better way to do this.
E.item()seems to be what you want, if you want a Python float.E.magnitude, offered by tzaman, is a 0-dimensional NumPy array with the value, if you’d prefer that.The documentation for
quantitiesdoesn’t seem to have a very good API reference.