Martin Panter <vadmium...@gmail.com> added the comment:
Ken Kundert started a related discussion a while back on Python-ideas:
<https://www.mail-archive.com/search?l=mid&q=20160830203427.ge2...@kundert.designers-guide.com>.
This was about SI-prefixed units in general; not restricted to bytes. Also,
the “timeit” module already does auto-scaling across nsec, usec, msec, and sec.
I think supporting decimal SI prefixes (for µs, mL, km, MW, etc) is more
important than the binary versions (KiB, MiB, GiB). And units of 1,024,000 are
definitely too niche.
I think a new format type “:h” may be the way forward. Perhaps it would add an
SI prefix, and then the user could append their unit:
>>> f"{123901842:h}B" # Six significant digits by default (like “:g”)
"123.902 MB"
>>> f"{123901842:.5h}B" # Drop trailing zeros
"123.9 MB"
>>> f"{12:+6h}m" # Sign and width options may be useful
" +12 m"
>>> f"{12e99:h}m" # Exponential notation for extreme values
"1.2e100 m"
>>> f"{12e99:H}m" # Capitalize E, INF, etc (but not k for kilo-, etc)
"1.2E100 m"
>>> f"{123901:#.5h}m" # Alternative form keeps trailing zeros
"123.90 km"
>>> f"{123:.2h}m" # Precision < 3 may not be respected
"123 m"
>>> f"{123:#.2h}m" # Maybe alternative form could respect the precision
"0.12 km"
>>> f"{123901842:.4h}B".replace(" ", "") # Avoid the space
"123.9MB"
>>> f"{123901842:.4h}B".replace(" ", " ") # Alternative space
"123.9 MB"
>>> f"{123901842:.4h}B".replace(".", ",") # Alternative to decimal point
"123,9 MB"
>>> f"{12e-6:h}sec" # Non-ASCII by default
"12 µsec"
>>> f"{12e-6:h}sec".replace("\N{MICRO SIGN}", "u") # ASCII compatibility
"12 usec"
Squares and cubes may be a minor stumbling block: 0.001 m² is one thousand
square millimetres, but f"{0.001:.3h}m²" would return "1 mm²".
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