pynbody.units.Unit

pynbody.units.Unit(s)

Class factory for units. Given a string s, creates a Unit object.

The string format is:

[<scale>] [<unit_name>][**<rational_power>] [[<unit_name>] … ]

for example:

“1.e30 kg”

“kpc**2”

“26.2 m s**-1”