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.
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
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.
This software is licensed under the MIT license.
© 2013 Peter Odding.