Makes it easy to insert physical constants and units in python calculations.
fuzzywuzzy
is a requirements, which can be installed by:
pip install fuzzywuzzy
The physcon library is simply used like:
import physcon
physcon.e # --> returns 1.6022e-19
physcon.Rsun # --> returns 6.9600e8
In addition physcon supplies two methods, which match constant values and units to a search_string
through values(search_string)
and units(search_string)
.
import physcon
physcon.values('Planck's constant')
# --> returns 6.6261e-34
physcon.units(('Planck's constant')
# --> returns 'J s'