Question

How to format bytes to kilobytes, megabytes, gigabytes and terabytes in Python

Answer 1

def format_bytes(bytes_num):
    sizes = [ "B", "KB", "MB", "GB", "TB" ]

    i = 0
    dblbyte = bytes_num

    while (i < len(sizes) and bytes_num >= 1024):
            dblbyte = bytes_num / 1024.0
            i = i + 1
            bytes_num = bytes_num / 1024

    return str(round(dblbyte, 2)) + " " + sizes[i]


print(format_bytes(9823453784599))
print(format_bytes(7124362542))
print(format_bytes(23746178))
print(format_bytes(1048576))
print(format_bytes(1024000))
print(format_bytes(873445))
print(format_bytes(1024))
print(format_bytes(978))
print(format_bytes(13))
print(format_bytes(0))


'''
run:

8.93 TB
6.64 GB
22.65 MB
1.0 MB
1000.0 KB
852.97 KB
1.0 KB
978 B
13 B
0 B

'''

 

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