┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
   │  c o d e c h u — f m t                           │
   │  0.001s   1.5KB   42m07s   3.14MB/s   1h23m      │
   │  ·······raw numbers in, human strings out······· │
   └──────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

Precision formatters for durations, rates and byte sizes.

codechu-fmt

Stdlib-only human-readable formatters — durations, rates, and byte sizes — extracted from the Disk Cleaner toolchain. No external dependencies. Python 3.10+.

Install

pip install codechu-fmt

API

from codechu_fmt import (
    format_bitrate, format_compact, format_duration,
    format_percent, format_rate, format_size,
)

format_duration(90)                       # → '1m 30s'
format_duration(90, compact=True)         # → '1m30s'
format_duration(0.5, compact=True)        # → '500ms'
format_duration(0.0005)                   # → '500µs'
format_duration(0.0000001)                # → '100ns'

format_rate(123.4)                        # → '123.4/s'
format_rate(1.5 * 1024**2, unit="bytes")  # → '1.5 MB/s'
format_rate(1500, unit="ops")             # → '1.5k ops/s'

format_size(1536)                         # → '1.5 KiB'   (binary, IEC)
format_size(1500, binary=False)           # → '1.5 kB'    (decimal, SI)
format_size(-1024)                        # → '-1.0 KiB'  (deltas welcome)

format_bitrate(1_500_000)                 # → '1.5 Mbps'  (SI, 1000-base)
format_bitrate(2_500_000_000)             # → '2.5 Gbps'

format_percent(0.42)                      # → '42.0%'
format_percent(0.42, locale="tr")         # → '%42,0'

format_compact(15_234)                    # → '15.2K'
format_compact(2_500_000_000)             # → '2.5B'

format_duration(seconds, *, compact=False)

Default form renders a human-friendly two-unit duration: 0.5s, 45.3s, 1m 30s, 1h 15m, 1d 5h, 2y 30d.

compact=True packs the same information into a tighter form suited for status lines: 500ms, 45s, 1m30s, 1h15m.

Negative values and NaN render as "?".

format_rate(units_per_sec, *, unit="items", precision=1)

• unit="items" (default) → 123.4/s
• unit="bytes" → IEC byte-rate, e.g. 1.5 MB/s
• unit="ops" → decimal-scaled, e.g. 2.5M ops/s
• any other label → 42.0 req/s-style suffix

format_size(num_bytes, *, binary=True, precision=1)

• binary=True (default) → IEC powers of 1024: KiB, MiB, GiB, …
• binary=False → SI powers of 1000: kB, MB, GB, …

format_bitrate(bps, *, precision=1)

SI (1000-based) bitrate ladder for networking: bps, Kbps, Mbps, Gbps, Tbps, Pbps. Input is bits per second.

format_percent(ratio, *, precision=1, locale="en")

0-1 ratio → percent string. locale="en" → "42.0%"; locale="tr" → "%42,0" (comma decimal, leading %). Other locales fall back to "en".

format_compact(n, *, precision=1)

Large numbers → short SI-prefix string using K/M/B/T (English engineering convention). 15_234 → "15.2K", 2.5e9 → "2.5B".

Negative & non-finite handling

All formatters share the same conventions:

Design

• Pure stdlib. Zero third-party dependencies. The whole library is three small modules.
• Predictable strings. Output is stable across platforms and locales — no thousand separators, no locale formatting.
• Defensive. Negative, NaN, and Inf inputs never raise. NaN renders as "?" for the original three formatters and as "NaN…" for the v0.3 additions; negatives carry a leading - so deltas read naturally. Useful when the source is a noisy counter.

Tests

pip install -e ".[dev]"
pytest -q

Coverage gate: ≥90 %.

Documentation

• API reference — every public symbol, signatures, edge cases
• Migration guide — v0.1 → v0.2 (drop-in replacement)
• Recipes — idiomatic patterns for CLIs, logs, progress bars

Codechu family

Companion libraries from the Codechu Python ecosystem:

Credits

• Inspired by humanize for the conceptual goal of human-readable values
• IEC binary prefix convention follows IEEE 1541-2002

License

MIT — see LICENSE.