# # Copyright 2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc. # # This file is part of GNU Radio # # GNU Radio is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify # it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by # the Free Software Foundation; either version 3, or (at your option) # any later version. # # GNU Radio is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, # but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of # MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the # GNU General Public License for more details. # # You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License # along with GNU Radio; see the file COPYING. If not, write to # the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, # Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA. # """ Display numbers as strings using engineering notation. """ scale_factor = {} scale_factor['E'] = 1e18 scale_factor['P'] = 1e15 scale_factor['T'] = 1e12 scale_factor['G'] = 1e9 scale_factor['M'] = 1e6 scale_factor['k'] = 1e3 scale_factor['m'] = 1e-3 scale_factor['u'] = 1e-6 scale_factor['n'] = 1e-9 scale_factor['p'] = 1e-12 scale_factor['f'] = 1e-15 scale_factor['a'] = 1e-18 def num_to_str (n, precision=6): '''Convert a number to a string in engineering notation. E.g., 5e-9 -> 5n''' m = abs(n) format_spec = '%.' + repr(int(precision)) + 'g' if m >= 1e9: return '%sG' % float(format_spec % (n * 1e-9)) elif m >= 1e6: return '%sM' % float(format_spec % (n * 1e-6)) elif m >= 1e3: return '%sk' % float(format_spec % (n * 1e-3)) elif m >= 1: return '%s' % float(format_spec % (n)) elif m >= 1e-3: return '%sm' % float(format_spec % (n * 1e3)) elif m >= 1e-6: return '%su' % float(format_spec % (n * 1e6)) elif m >= 1e-9: return '%sn' % float(format_spec % (n * 1e9)) elif m >= 1e-12: return '%sp' % float(format_spec % (n * 1e12)) elif m >= 1e-15: return '%sf' % float(format_spec % (n * 1e15)) else: return '%s' % float(format_spec % (n)) def str_to_num (value): '''Convert a string in engineering notation to a number. E.g., '15m' -> 15e-3''' try: scale = 1.0 suffix = value[-1] if scale_factor.has_key (suffix): return float (value[0:-1]) * scale_factor[suffix] return float (value) except: raise RuntimeError ( "Invalid engineering notation value: %r" % (value,))