Format file size for printing

[abcd]

is there a built-in way of printing the size of a file nicely?

So if the file size is 103803 bytes it prints out like: 103.8K
or
0.1MB

something liek that?

 

[John Zenger]

I know of no built-in way, but you could probably code this in a few
lines using print "%.1f" and so on.

(Some of us, by the way, are in the camp that believes a kilobyte is
1024 bytes, not 1000, so 103803 bytes for us is about 101.4 kilobytes).

 

[Fuzzyman]

is there a built-in way of printing the size of a file nicely?

So if the file size is 103803 bytes it prints out like: 103.8K
or
0.1MB

something liek that?

Pathutils (small extension module - not builtin) contains a basic
function that does this.

http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/pathutils.html

All the best,


Fuzzyman
http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/index.shtml