Get human readable version of file size?

Addressing the above "too small a task to require a library" issue by a straightforward implementation (using f-strings, so Python 3.6+):

def sizeof_fmt(num, suffix="B"):
    for unit in ["", "Ki", "Mi", "Gi", "Ti", "Pi", "Ei", "Zi"]:
        if abs(num) < 1024.0:
            return f"{num:3.1f}{unit}{suffix}"
        num /= 1024.0
    return f"{num:.1f}Yi{suffix}"

Supports:

• all currently known binary prefixes
• negative and positive numbers
• numbers larger than 1000 Yobibytes
• arbitrary units (maybe you like to count in Gibibits!)

Example:

>>> sizeof_fmt(168963795964)
'157.4GiB'

by Fred Cirera

A library that has all the functionality that it seems you're looking for is humanize. humanize.naturalsize() seems to do everything you're looking for.

Example code (python 3.10)

import humanize

disk_sizes_list = [1, 100, 999, 1000,1024, 2000,2048, 3000, 9999, 10000, 2048000000, 9990000000, 9000000000000000000000]
for size in disk_sizes_list:
    natural_size = humanize.naturalsize(size)
    binary_size = humanize.naturalsize(size, binary=True)
    print(f" {natural_size} \t| {binary_size}\t|{size}")

Output

 1 Byte     | 1 Byte    |1
 100 Bytes  | 100 Bytes |100
 999 Bytes  | 999 Bytes |999
 1.0 kB     | 1000 Bytes    |1000
 1.0 kB     | 1.0 KiB   |1024
 2.0 kB     | 2.0 KiB   |2000
 2.0 kB     | 2.0 KiB   |2048
 3.0 kB     | 2.9 KiB   |3000
 10.0 kB    | 9.8 KiB   |9999
 10.0 kB    | 9.8 KiB   |10000
 2.0 GB     | 1.9 GiB   |2048000000
 10.0 GB    | 9.3 GiB   |9990000000
 9.0 ZB     | 7.6 ZiB   |9000000000000000000000