parse french unit names

[walidsa3d]

I want to be able to parse strings containing french units (mentiond here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octet_(computing)) , can you please support that?

[tbielawa]

This is the most interesting request for enhancement that I've received to date, @walidsa3d. I'm thrilled!

I like this part the most of all, it makes my job easier:

• Unit Multiples

Let's get one thing straight first, you're specifically requesting that in addition to the currently supported prefix units:

• bitmath - Available Classes

... that there will be companion octet classes, such as the NIST-octet (base 2) classes:

• Kio
• Eio
• *io

... and the SI equivalents

• ko
• Eo
• *o

Can you describe some use-cases for me? Such as what functionality you would want to interact with these units directly. Are you specifically looking to use the parse_string functionality? Honestly, I can't imagine why you'd want to code unusual units into any code, as far as sharing and comprehendability is concerned.

I'm not looking to reject this request, I only want to understand your use cases so I can better accommodate your request 👍

edited to fix the unit names in the list examples

[walidsa3d]

Here is my use case : I was trying to convert human-readable strings like "1.5GB", "5MB" into bytes using parse_string. It worked until I stumbled on those french names: Mo instead of Mb, Go instead of Gb, Ko instead of Kb.

[tbielawa]

Cool! I think to keep things simple, as I'm not too keen on the idea of adding 23 more classes for obscure units, I might implement it initially such that:

• bitmath.parse_string("100Mio") would return a bitmath.MiB(100) instance
• bitmath.parse_string("100ko") would return a bitmath.kB(100).
• and so on...

I will write up some code later today after these meetings.

[tbielawa]

@walidsa3d please give this a review for me. Also, I've updated the parse_string docs to note the support for octets. Please give that a read over as well. It will appear here

• http://bitmath.readthedocs.org/en/latest/module.html#bitmath-parse-string

once the docs rebuild.

[walidsa3d]

Thanks, it works like charm :)