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Every dependency adds complexity to your project, you might never notice it because the abstractions are water tight (for your use-case) but it’s there.

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Yes but pint seems to add numpy and dask from a quick check. How is sympy worse? And maintaining sth yourself for sure adds complexity.

From the documentation:

Dependency free: it depends only on Python and its standard library. It interacts with other packages like numpy and uncertainties if they are installed

Oh I guess I looked into some build dependencies because there were actually none . This is actually a good thing more libraries should do. So I guess the only downside would be that potentially versioned dependencies/breaking changes need to be managed one level above if you want to use those parts. Is there actually a good way manage "supported" optional dependencies in python?

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