I believe the sympy.physics.unitsystems module is capable of doing
this. http://docs.sympy.org/latest/modules/physics/unitsystems/index.html

Aaron Meurer

On Thu, Mar 2, 2017 at 4:56 AM,  <[email protected]> wrote:
> I wonder whether it is currently (or will soon be) possible to specify which
> physical dimension (or unit) a symbol has and have sympy check that these
> are compatible when, say, adding symbols or expressions, and compute the
> resulting dimension (or unit) when, say, multiplying symbols or expressions?
>
> I imagine something like
>
>
>>>> x = Symbol("x", dimension=length/time)
>>>> y = Symbol("y", dimension=time)
>>>> x + y
> DimensionError: incompatible dimensions cannot be added
>>>> (x * y).dimension
> length
>
>
> I know that sympy has now units, but it seems they are only used in
> numerical computations, not in symbolic ones, am I right?
>
> If the imagined functionality is not present or planned to be added soon,
> how would you advise me to add it for my project by subclassing? Would it be
> sufficient to subclass sympy.Expr or would I have to subclass Add, Mul, etc.
> as well?
>
> Thanks, Jobst
>
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