New submission from Rich <miserlou+pyth...@gmail.com>: This problem is an _extremely_ common one, a problem that almost any Python project of a reasonable size will encounter.
Given a number of bytes, say 123901842, format this as '123.9MB'. The reason I strongly think that this should be included in the standard library is that if you look for how to do this through a Google search, there are an incredible amount of different solutions on StackOverflow, blog posts, forum posts, and various different libraries which provide this functionality - with varying levels of functionality and safety. You can also find different implementations of solutions to this problem inside of pretty much every major Python project (Django, etc.). In fact, I don't think I can think of any other function that gets copy-pasted into a project's 'util.py' file more commonly. I think this should functionality should be provided in the standard math package, with arguments which allow to specific SI/NIST formatting and the number of significant digits to display. Implementing this would strongly cut down on the amount of cargo-cult Python programming in the world. I'm willing to implement this if there's a consensus that it should be included. Thanks!, Rich Jones ---------- messages: 304061 nosy: miserlou2 priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: Request: Human readable byte amounts in the standard library type: enhancement versions: Python 3.8 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue31749> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
