ANNOUNCE: byteformat0.2a

[Karim]

Cool steven, very helpful

I have a db which holds units data it will avoids me to do such format 
conversion.

Thnx

Cheers
Karim


Le 15/05/2012 10:30, Steven D'Aprano a écrit :
> I am pleased to announce a new release of byteformat.
>
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> http://pypi.python.org/pypi/byteformat
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> byteformat is a Python module for intelligently formatting numbers of
> bytes using common human-readable strings:
>
>>>> from byteformat import format
>>>> format(12000)
> '12 KB'
>>>> format(5100000, style='ABBREV')
> '5.1 Mbytes'
>>>> format(48500000000000, style='LONG')
> '48.5 terabytes'
>
>
> byteformat understands SI decimal units, IEC binary units, and mixed
> units:
>
>>>> format(12000, scheme='IEC')
> '11.7 KiB'
>>>> format(12000, scheme='MIXED')
> '11.7 KB'
>
>
> You can also specify which prefix to use:
>
>>>> format(48500000000000, style='LONG', prefix='M')
> '48500000 megabytes'
>
>
> byteformat can be used as a command-line tool:
>
> [steve at ando ~]$ python -m byteformat --prefix=K 1000 12300 145000
> 1 KB
> 12.3 KB
> 145 KB
>
>
> byteformat understands all the relevant SI and IEC unit prefixes, and is
> released under the MIT licence.
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