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 works with python 2.7 and 3.3 and is localized to Russian, French, and Korean.
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 datetime >>> humanize.naturalday(datetime.datetime.now()) 'today' >>> humanize.naturalday(datetime.datetime.now() - datetime.timedelta(days=1)) 'yesterday' >>> humanize.naturalday(datetime.date(2007, 6, 5)) 'Jun 05' >>> humanize.naturaldate(datetime.date(2007, 6, 5)) 'Jun 05 2007' >>> humanize.naturaltime(datetime.datetime.now() - datetime.timedelta(seconds=1)) 'a second ago' >>> humanize.naturaltime(datetime.datetime.now() - datetime.timedelta(seconds=3600)) 'an hour ago'
Filesize humanization:
>>> humanize.naturalsize(1000000) '1.0 MB' >>> humanize.naturalsize(1000000, binary=True) '976.6 KiB' >>> humanize.naturalsize(1000000, gnu=True) '976.6K'
Human readable floating point numbers:
>>> humanize.fractional(1/3) '1/3' >>> humanize.fractional(1.5) '1 1/2' >>> humanize.fractional(0.3) '3/10' >>> humanize.fractional(0.333) '1/3' >>> humanize.fractional(1) '1'
How to change locale in runtime
>>> print humanize.naturaltime(datetime.timedelta(seconds=3))
3 seconds ago
>>> _t = humanize.i18n.activate('ru_RU')
>>> print humanize.naturaltime(datetime.timedelta(seconds=3))
3 секунды назад
>>> humanize.i18n.deactivate()
>>> print humanize.naturaltime(datetime.timedelta(seconds=3))
3 seconds ago
You can pass additional parameter path to :func:`activate` to specify a path to search locales in.
>>> humanize.i18n.activate('pt_BR')
IOError: [Errno 2] No translation file found for domain: 'humanize'
>>> humanize.i18n.activate('pt_BR', path='path/to/my/portuguese/translation/')
<gettext.GNUTranslations instance ...>
How to add new phrases to existing locale files
$ xgettext -o humanize.pot -k'_' -k'N_' -k'P_:1c,2' -l python humanize/*.py # extract new phrases
$ msgmerge -U humanize/locale/ru_RU/LC_MESSAGES/humanize.po humanize.pot # add them to locale files
$ msgfmt --check -o humanize/locale/ru_RU/LC_MESSAGES/humanize{.po,.mo} # compile to binary .mo
How to add new locale
$ msginit -i humanize.pot -o humanize/locale/<locale name>/LC_MESSAGES/humanize.po --locale <locale name>
Where <locale name> is locale abbreviation, eg 'en_GB', 'pt_BR' or just 'ru', 'fr' etc.