Human friendly output for text interfaces using Python
Project description
The functions in the humanfriendly package can be used to make text interfaces more user friendly by parsing and formatting file sizes and timestamps in simple, human readable formats. It’s currently tested on Python 2.6, 2.7 and 3.4.
Getting started
It’s very simple to start using the humanfriendly package:
>>> import humanfriendly >>> user_input = raw_input("Enter a readable file size: ") Enter a readable file size: 16G >>> num_bytes = humanfriendly.parse_size(user_input) >>> print num_bytes 17179869184 >>> print "You entered:", humanfriendly.format_size(num_bytes) You entered: 16 GB
Contact
The latest version of humanfriendly is available on PyPI and GitHub. The documentation is hosted on Read the Docs. For bug reports please create an issue on GitHub. If you have questions, suggestions, etc. feel free to send me an e-mail at peter@peterodding.com.
License
This software is licensed under the MIT license.
© 2013 Peter Odding.
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