humanize
This modest package contains various common humanization utilities, like turning a number into a fuzzy human-readable duration ("3 minutes ago") or into a human-readable size or throughput. It is localized to:
- Bengali
- Brazilian Portuguese
- Catalan
- Danish
- Dutch
- European Portuguese
- Finnish
- French
- German
- Indonesian
- Italian
- Japanese
- Korean
- Persian
- Polish
- Russian
- Simplified Chinese
- Slovak
- Slovenian
- Spanish
- Swedish
- Turkish
- Ukrainian
- Vietnamese
API reference
https://python-humanize.readthedocs.io
Usage
Integer humanization
>>> import humanize
>>> humanize.intcomma(12345)
'12,345'
>>> humanize.intword(123455913)
'123.5 million'
>>> humanize.intword(12345591313)
'12.3 billion'
>>> humanize.apnumber(4)
'four'
>>> humanize.apnumber(41)
'41'
Date & time humanization
>>> import humanize
>>> import datetime as dt
>>> humanize.naturalday(dt.datetime.now())
'today'
>>> humanize.naturaldelta(dt.timedelta(seconds=1001))
'16 minutes'
>>> humanize.naturalday(dt.datetime.now() - dt.timedelta(days=1))
'yesterday'
>>> humanize.naturalday(dt.date(2007, 6, 5))
'Jun 05'
>>> humanize.naturaldate(dt.date(2007, 6, 5))
'Jun 05 2007'
>>> humanize.naturaltime(dt.datetime.now() - dt.timedelta(seconds=1))
'a second ago'
>>> humanize.naturaltime(dt.datetime.now() - dt.timedelta(seconds=3600))
'an hour ago'
Precise time delta
>> humanize.precisedelta(delta, suppress=["days"], format="%0.4f") '49 hours and 33.1230 seconds'">
>>> import humanize >>> import datetime as dt >>> delta = dt.timedelta(seconds=3633, days=2, microseconds=123000) >>> humanize.precisedelta(delta) '2 days, 1 hour and 33.12 seconds' >>> humanize.precisedelta(delta, minimum_unit="microseconds") '2 days, 1 hour, 33 seconds and 123 milliseconds' >>> humanize.precisedelta(delta, suppress=["days"], format="%0.4f") '49 hours and 33.1230 seconds'
Smaller units
If seconds are too large, set minimum_unit to milliseconds or microseconds:
>>> import humanize
>>> import datetime as dt
>>> humanize.naturaldelta(dt.timedelta(seconds=2))
'2 seconds'
>> humanize.naturaldelta(delta, minimum_unit="microseconds") '4 milliseconds'">
>>> delta = dt.timedelta(milliseconds=4) >>> humanize.naturaldelta(delta) 'a moment' >>> humanize.naturaldelta(delta, minimum_unit="milliseconds") '4 milliseconds' >>> humanize.naturaldelta(delta, minimum_unit="microseconds") '4 milliseconds'
>> humanize.naturaltime(delta, minimum_unit="microseconds") '4 milliseconds ago'">
>>> humanize.naturaltime(delta) 'now' >>> humanize.naturaltime(delta, minimum_unit="milliseconds") '4 milliseconds ago' >>> humanize.naturaltime(delta, minimum_unit="microseconds") '4 milliseconds ago'
File size humanization
>>> import humanize
>>> humanize.naturalsize(1_000_000)
'1.0 MB'
>>> humanize.naturalsize(1_000_000, binary=True)
'976.6 KiB'
>>> humanize.naturalsize(1_000_000, gnu=True)
'976.6K'
Human-readable floating point numbers
>>> import humanize
>>> humanize.fractional(1/3)
'1/3'
>>> humanize.fractional(1.5)
'1 1/2'
>>> humanize.fractional(0.3)
'3/10'
>>> humanize.fractional(0.333)
'333/1000'
>>> humanize.fractional(1)
'1'
Scientific notation
>> humanize.scientific(1**10) '1.00 x 10⁰' >>> humanize.scientific(1**10, precision=1) '1.0 x 10⁰' >>> humanize.scientific(1**10, precision=0) '1 x 10⁰'">
>>> import humanize >>> humanize.scientific(0.3) '3.00 x 10⁻¹' >>> humanize.scientific(500) '5.00 x 10²' >>> humanize.scientific("20000") '2.00 x 10⁴' >>> humanize.scientific(1**10) '1.00 x 10⁰' >>> humanize.scientific(1**10, precision=1) '1.0 x 10⁰' >>> humanize.scientific(1**10, precision=0) '1 x 10⁰'
Localization
How to change locale at runtime:
>> humanize.naturaltime(dt.timedelta(seconds=3)) '3 секунды назад' >>> humanize.i18n.deactivate() >>> humanize.naturaltime(dt.timedelta(seconds=3)) '3 seconds ago'">
>>> import humanize >>> import datetime as dt >>> humanize.naturaltime(dt.timedelta(seconds=3)) '3 seconds ago' >>> _t = humanize.i18n.activate("ru_RU") >>> humanize.naturaltime(dt.timedelta(seconds=3)) '3 секунды назад' >>> humanize.i18n.deactivate() >>> humanize.naturaltime(dt.timedelta(seconds=3)) '3 seconds ago'
You can pass additional parameter path to activate to specify a path to search locales in.
FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No translation file found for domain: 'humanize' >>> humanize.i18n.activate("pt_BR", path="path/to/my/own/translation/")
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>>> import humanize >>> humanize.i18n.activate("xx_XX") <...> FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No translation file found for domain: 'humanize' >>> humanize.i18n.activate("pt_BR", path="path/to/my/own/translation/")
How to add new phrases to existing locale files:
$ xgettext --from-code=UTF-8 -o humanize.pot -k'_' -k'N_' -k'P_:1c,2' -l python src/humanize/*.py # extract new phrases
$ msgmerge -U src/humanize/locale/ru_RU/LC_MESSAGES/humanize.po humanize.pot # add them to locale files
How to add a new locale:
$ msginit -i humanize.pot -o humanize/locale/<locale name>/LC_MESSAGES/humanize.po --locale <locale name>
Where
is a locale abbreviation, eg. en_GB, pt_BR or just ru, fr etc.
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