Native Python support for units?

Posted Jul 23, 2022 7:02 UTC (Sat) by smurf (subscriber, #17840)
In reply to: Native Python support for units? by Darkstar
Parent article: Native Python support for units?

Guido's answer is that an i, esp. when uppercased, looks too much like the digit 1 to be confusing.

Also, well, Mathematicians use i while engineering uses j because i is either current or an index. Python had to choose one, so Guido picked j.