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Astropy units do not convert correctly with `np.array`

See original GitHub issue

Compare:

>>> import astropy.units as u
>>> import numpy as np
>>> a = 3600 * u.s
>>> b = 1 * u.h
>>> ratio = a / b
>>> float(ratio)
1.0
>>> np.array(ratio)
array(3600.0)

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Created 6 years ago
Comments:12 (11 by maintainers)

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2reactions

pllimcommented, May 9, 2017

p.s. And maybe with a note in the docs saying that this is not supported?

1reaction

pmplewacommented, May 10, 2017

This works as expected though:

>>> np.array([ratio])
array([ 1.])

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