Extract scalar value from pint.quantity

[Marston]

How do I extract the numeric value or convert Pint.quantity to a scalar numeric value?

from metpy.calc import virtual_temperature
from metpy.units import units

x = virtual_temperature(283 * units.K, 12 * units('g/kg'))
print(x)
<Quantity(285.039709, 'kelvin')>

I would like to just get the numeric value of 285.039709.

[dopplershift]

From the user's guide->Unit Tutorial->"Dropping Units":

x.magnitude

Or you can write that really succinctly as x.m.

[Marston]

Thanks. I had a look through the docs yesterday, but I apparently missed that. Thanks :-)