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to_compact is broken for Measurements and for Quantitys with uncertainties #2044

@doronbehar

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@doronbehar

I'm using uncertainties 3.2.2, and pint 0.24.3, and I want to use to_compact for measurements, and it fails. Here's a MWE demonstrating two methods I tried:

import uncertainties

import pint
ureg = pint.UnitRegistry()

v = 1.24
s = 0.01

# Fails
print((v * ureg.Hz).plus_minus(s).to_compact())
# Also fails
print((uncertainties.ufloat(v, s)*ureg.Hz).to_compact())

Fails with:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/doron/repos/lab-ion-trap-simulations/mwe.py", line 12, in <module>
    print((uncertainties.ufloat(v, s)*ureg.Hz).to_compact())
          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/nix/store/zw5lasilw5gacg56s0rgnazdng3vby2i-python3-3.12.4-env/lib/python3.12/site-packages/pint/facets/plain/qto.py", line 116, in to_compact
    or math.isnan(quantity.magnitude)
       ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/nix/store/zw5lasilw5gacg56s0rgnazdng3vby2i-python3-3.12.4-env/lib/python3.12/site-packages/uncertainties/core.py", line 2611, in raise_error
    raise TypeError("can't convert an affine function (%s)"
TypeError: can't convert an affine function (<class 'uncertainties.core.AffineScalarFunc'>) to float; use x.nominal_value

I tested this MWE with multiple uncertainties versions 3.2.2, 3.2.0 and 3.1.7 and all of them didn't fail when pint was downgraded to 0.23, and failed when pint was at version 0.24 and 0.24.1.

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