Engineering format in tables

[seantbaker]

Is there a way to get engineering notation in the python package, similar to fmt_engineering in the R package?

Setting compact=True in fmt_number alllmost does the trick, but it only adds the SI prefix for big numbers, like thousands or millions. I don't see a way to do something similar for really small numbers, like milli- or micro-.

Is there a way to use fmt_number or fmt_scientific to achieve this? Or am I approaching this the wrong way; maybe I should be scaling my data and providing units in the table?

Thanks!