On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 09:03:32PM +0100, Paul Moore wrote: > That's not to say there's no room for debate here - the proposal is > interesting, and not without precedent (for example Windows Powershell > supports constants of the form 1MB, 1GB
That's great! I know a few command line tools and scripts which do that, and it's really useful. > - which ironically are > computing-style 2*20 and 2*30 rather than SI-style 10*6 and 10*9). Do I remember correctly that Windows file Explorer displays disk sizes is decimal SI units? If so, how very Microsoft, to take a standard and confuse it rather than encourage it :-( Historically, there are *three* different meanings for "MB", only one of which is an official standard: http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/binary.html -- Steve _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list Python-ideas@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
