Human readable number formatting

[Erik Max Francis]

Alex Willmer wrote:

> When reporting file sizes to the user, it's nice to print '16.1 MB',
> rather than '16123270 B'. This is the behaviour the command 'df -h'
> implements. There's no python function that I could find to perform this
> formatting , so I've taken a stab at it:

BOTEC at

	http://www.alcyone.com/software/botec/

contains a class called SI which does this formatting (and supports all 
SI prefixes).

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