Convert file size to human readable text in Python
This Python tutorial we learn how to use the humanize package to convert file size from a number of bytes into human readable format string.
Install humanize package
Installing the humanize package using the following command.
pip install humanizeConvert file size into human readable string
To convert file size in number of bytes into readable string such as K, KiB, MB, GB we can use the naturalsize() method of humanize package as below.
import humanize
file_size1 = humanize.naturalsize(3000000)
file_size2 = humanize.naturalsize(300, binary=False, gnu=True)
file_size3 = humanize.naturalsize(3000, binary=False, gnu=True)
file_size4 = humanize.naturalsize(3000, binary=False, gnu=True, format='%.3f')
file_size5 = humanize.naturalsize(3000, binary=True)
print(file_size1)
print(file_size2)
print(file_size3)
print(file_size4)
print(file_size5)3.0 MB
300B
2.9K
2.930K
2.9 KiBHappy Coding 😊