4.12. Support for PUnit and Units qualifiers

The pywbem.siunit_obj() and pywbem.siunit() functions translate the PUnit and Units qualifier values into human readable SI conformant unit strings.

Experimental: New in 1.1.0 as experimental

Note: These functions do not perform any class operations; they take the qualifiers as input.

The reason the Units qualifier is still supported is that the DMTF CIM Schema (as of its version 2.49) still contains a number of schema elements that have the Units qualifier but not the PUnit qualifier set.

The format and valid base units for the PUnit qualifier and the valid values for the Units qualifier are defined in Annex C of DSP0004. Pywbem supports the definitions from DSP0004 version 2.8, and the following additional Units qualifier values that are used in DMTF CIM Schema version 2.49:

Additional Units values
-dBm
Blocks
Percentage
Proportion
Tenths of Revolutions per Minute

By default, the string value returned from these functions may contain the following Unicode characters outside of the 7-bit ASCII range. If the use_ascii parameter is True, these Unicode characters are replaced with 7-bit ASCII text as follows:

Unicode character code Unicode 7-bit ASCII
U+00B0: DEGREE SIGN ° deg
U+00B5: MICRO SIGN µ u
U+2030: PER MILLE SIGN ‰ 1/1000
U+2126: OHM SIGN Ω Ohm
U+00B2: SUPERSCRIPT TWO ² ^2
U+00B3: SUPERSCRIPT THREE ³ ^3

Examples:

  • PUnit("byte / second * 10^3")-> kB/s
  • PUnit("byte * 2^10")-> KiB
  • PUnit("hertz * 10^6")-> MHz
  • PUnit("ampere * 10^-3") -> mA
  • Units("KiloBits per Second") -> kbit/s
  • Units("Tenths of Degrees C") -> 1/10 °C

Limitations:

  • For PUnit qualifiers, vendor-defined base units are not supported (e.g. vendor:myunit).
  • For PUnit qualifiers, space characters within the parenthesis of decibel (e.g. decibel ( A )) are not supported.
  • For Units qualifiers, arbitrary numeric values that are part of the Units value (e.g. <numeric-value> NanoSeconds or Amps at <numeric-value> Volts) are not generally supported, but only for those cases that are used in the DMTF CIM Schema (as of its version 2.49):
    • 250 NanoSeconds
    • Amps at 120 Volts
pywbem.siunit_obj(cim_obj, use_ascii=False)[source]

Returns a human readable SI conformant unit string from the PUnit or Units qualifiers of the specified CIM object.

Experimental: New in 1.1.0 as experimental

If the CIM object has both the PUnit and Units qualifiers set, then PUnit is used and Units is ignored.

Parameters:
  • cim_obj (CIMProperty or CIMMethod or CIMParameter) – CIM object with qualifiers.
  • use_ascii (bool) – Replace any Unicode characters in the returned string with 7-bit ASCII replacements, as described above.
Returns:

Human readable SI conformant unit string, or None if the CIM object has neither the PUnit nor the Units qualifiers set.
Return type:

unicode string
Raises:
pywbem.siunit(punit=None, units=None, use_ascii=False)[source]

Returns a human readable SI conformant unit string from the specified PUnit or Units qualifier values.

Experimental: New in 1.1.0 as experimental

If both punit and units are specified, then punit is used and units is ignored.

Parameters:
  • punit (string) – Value of the PUnit qualifier, or None.
  • units (string) – Value of the Units qualifier, or None.
  • use_ascii (bool) – Replace any Unicode characters in the returned string with 7-bit ASCII replacements, as described above.
Returns:

Human readable SI conformant unit string, or None if both qualifier value input parameters were None.
Return type:

unicode string
Raises: