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Yelp / paasta / paasta_tools / cli / cmds / status.py View on Github

allowed_max_job_name_length=allowed_max_job_name_length,
                state=(job.get("state") or "unknown"),
                start_time=f"{str(start_time)} ({humanize.naturaltime(start_time)})",
                dashboard_url=PaastaColors.grey(f"{dashboard_url}/#/jobs/{job_id}"),
            )
        )
        if verbose and job_id in status.exceptions:
            exceptions = status.exceptions[job_id]
            root_exception = exceptions["root-exception"]
            if root_exception is not None:
                output.append(f"        Exception: {root_exception}")
                ts = exceptions["timestamp"]
                if ts is not None:
                    exc_ts = datetime.fromtimestamp(int(ts) // 1000)
                    output.append(
                        f"            {str(exc_ts)} ({humanize.naturaltime(exc_ts)})"
                    )
    if verbose and len(status.pod_status) > 0:
        output.append(f"    Pods:")
        rows: List[Union[str, Tuple[str, str, str]]] = [("Pod Name", "Host", "Phase")]
        for pod in status.pod_status:
            rows.append((pod["name"], pod["host"], pod["phase"]))
            if pod["reason"] != "":
                rows.append(PaastaColors.grey(f"  {pod['reason']}: {pod['message']}"))
        pods_table = format_table(rows)
        output.extend([f"      {line}" for line in pods_table])
    return 0

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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:

• Arabic
• Basque
• Bengali
• Brazilian Portuguese
• Catalan
• Danish
• Dutch
• Esperanto
• European Portuguese
• Finnish
• French
• German
• Greek
• Hebrew
• Indonesian
• Italian
• Japanese
• Klingon
• Korean
• Norwegian
• Persian
• Polish
• Russian
• Simplified Chinese
• Slovak
• Slovenian
• Spanish
• Swedish
• Turkish
• Ukrainian
• Vietnamese

API reference

https://humanize.readthedocs.io

Installation

From PyPI

python3 -m pip install --upgrade humanize

From source

git clone https://github.com/python-humanize/humanize
cd humanize
python3 -m pip install -e .

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

>>> 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'

>>> 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)
'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

>>> 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:

>>> 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.

>>> 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' -k'NS_:1,2' -k'_ngettext:1,2' -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//LC_MESSAGES/humanize.po --locale 

Where `` is a locale abbreviation, eg. en_GB, pt_BR or just ru, fr etc.

List the language at the top of this README.