On Wed, Aug 31, 2016 at 8:57 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull <turnbull.stephen...@u.tsukuba.ac.jp> wrote: > Random832 writes: > > > Also, interesting quirk - it always rounds up. 1025 bytes is "1.1K", and > > in SI mode, 1001 bytes is "1.1k" > > That seems to be right approach: in system administration, these > numbers are used mostly to understand resource usage, and > underestimates are almost never what you want, while quite large > overestimates are tolerable, and are typically limited because the > actual precision of calculations is much higher than that of the > "human-readable" output.
That would seem to apply to "space used" but not to "space available". -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido) _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list Python-ideas@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
