Size of files in human, readable form

[Oleg Broytmann]

Hans,

   this is definetely for your snippets collection. Excellent example of
code.

On Tue, 21 Dec 1999, Martin Pool wrote:

> Thomas Weholt wrote:
> 
> > Just wondered if there are any modules/methods/ways to get a file`s size
> > in kilobytes or megabytes etc, based on what`s appropriate? Probably a
> > simple thing to do, but my attempts have failed.
> 
> As tim muddletin said, 
> 
> >>> import os,sys
> >>> os.path.getsize(sys.executable)
> 24638
> >>> os.stat(sys.executable)[6]
> 24638
> >>>
> 
> to get the size of the file, and then something like this to convert to
> human-readable form:
> 
> _abbrevs = [
>     (1<<50L, 'P'),
>     (1<<40L, 'T'), 
>     (1<<30L, 'G'), 
>     (1<<20L, 'M'), 
>     (1<<10L, 'k'),
>     (1, '')
>     ]
> 
> def greek(size):
>     """Return a string representing the greek/metric suffix of a size"""
>     for factor, suffix in _abbrevs:
>         if size > factor:
>             break
>     return `int(size/factor)` + suffix
> 
> You can change the comparison or int if you'd prefer to see things like
> "3023kb" or "3.02Mb".
> 
> 

Oleg.
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