Installation

$ pip install binary

Examples

Let’s import what we need:

>>> from binary import BinaryUnits, DecimalUnits, convert_units

Basic conversion:

>>> convert_units(1536, BinaryUnits.KB, BinaryUnits.MB)
(1.5, 'MiB')

How much actual storage your new hard drive has:

>>> convert_units(4, DecimalUnits.TB, BinaryUnits.TB)
(3.637978807091713, 'TiB')

Human readable:

>>> amount, unit = convert_units(kubernetes_ingest_bytes_per_second)
>>> 'Incoming traffic: {:.2f} {}/s'.format(amount, unit)
'Incoming traffic: 24.77 GiB/s'

Usage

Just a single function!

convert_units(n, unit=BYTE, to=None, si=False, exact=False)

Converts between and within binary and decimal units. If no unit is specified, n is assumed to already be in bytes. If no to is specified, n will be converted to the highest unit possible. If no unit nor to is specified, the output will be binary units unless si is True. If exact is True. the calculations will use decimal.Decimal.

• Parameters

  • n (int or float) - The number of units.

  • unit - The unit n represents. See types.

  • to - The unit to convert to. See types.

  • si (bool) - Assume SI units when no unit nor to is specified.

  • exact (bool) - Use decimal.Decimal for calculations.

License

binary is distributed under the terms of both

• MIT License

• Apache License, Version 2.0

at your option.

Changelog

Important changes are emphasized.