Units

[abkfenris]

It would be nice to integrate nicely with at least some flavor of unit conversion library.

CF standards are defined by udunit2, but that can be a bit of a beast to bind to in Python, so there have been a bunch of different attempts to work around that.

• https://github.com/pelson/pyudunits2
• Plan toward own pure-python udunits [DRAGON!] SciTools/cf-units#446

@ocefpaf has heard rumblings of a Rust implementation...

[abkfenris]

It would also be good to be able to explicitly set unit abbreviations.

[ocefpaf]

I've been a happy pyudunits2 user. I haven't heard of any advancement in the other efforts BTW.