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timedisplay

author: Cyril Guilloud ESRF BCU 2013-2019

timedisplay is a python library to format a time duration in a human-readable way.

Units managed are : * microseconds * milliseconds * seconds * minutes * hours * days

see also: https://github.com/jmoiron/humanize/ * but: https://github.com/jmoiron/humanize/issues/75 * conda-packaged

see also: https://github.com/tehmaze/natural * no conda package

examples

% ./timedisplay.py

--------------------{ timedisplay }----------------------------------
       0.000123 -> "123μs"
       0.123000 -> "123ms"
     123.000000 -> "2mn 3s"
     123.456789 -> "2mn 3s 456ms 789μs"
  123456.000000 -> "1day 10h 17mn 36s"
 1234567.000000 -> "14days 6h 56mn 7s"

installation

usage

import timedisplay

print(f"duration: {timedisplay.duration_format(123.456789)}")
result:
duration: 2mn 3s 456ms 789μs