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2008-07-29T07:06:58-07:00Pádraig Bradyhttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/1890175/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/576385-format-a-number-for-human-consumption/
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Python
recipe 576385
by <a href="/recipes/users/1890175/">Pádraig Brady</a>
(<a href="/recipes/tags/format/">format</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/iec/">iec</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/numbers/">numbers</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/si/">si</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/thousands/">thousands</a>).
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<p>convert a number to a string representation that is more easily parsed by humans.
It supports inserting thousands separators and converting to IEC or SI units.</p>