The dateutil.parser.parse() of distance strings?
<p>Anyone know a python package that's the dateutil of distance strings?  It would be great if something was out there that worked something like the following:</p>

<pre><code>&gt;&gt;&gt; from awesome_dist_module import Distance
&gt;&gt;&gt; d = Distance("100 ft")
&gt;&gt;&gt; d.meters
30.48
&gt;&gt;&gt; d = Distance("100 feet")
&gt;&gt;&gt; d.meters
30.48
&gt;&gt;&gt; d.miles
0.0189393939
</code></pre>

<p>The key thing isn't the conversions so much as being able to pass in a string that represents some kind of measurement and get back a float for another measurement of you're choosing without knowing what measurement is in the string.</p>

<p>Anything?</p>
