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Humanize: my first open source package, mostly a rewrite

39 points by dewmop 14y ago

coderdude 14y ago
You should check out the 'quantification' features of this Python lib called Pattern: http://www.clips.ua.ac.be/pages/pattern-en http://www.clips.ua.ac.be/pages/pattern-en >>> from pattern.en import quantify >>> print quantify(['goose', 'goose', 'duck', 'chicken', 'chicken', 'chicken']) >>> print quantify('carrot', amount=1000) >>> print quantify({'carrot': 100, 'parrot': 20}) several chickens, a pair of geese and a duck hundreds of carrots dozens of carrots and a score of parrots This is useful functionality to include. It's practically cheating to port Python to JavaScript so it shouldn't be hard to adapt the relevant parts of the code to your project. (Well, depending on how much of it depends on the pluralization/singularization portions of Pattern.)
- dewmop 14y ago
  Thanks for the suggestion. I'll look into it
- gouranga 14y ago
  That's awesome. I needed that last week ironically. Thanks for posting.
  - sjwright 14y ago
    Ironically?
    - gouranga 14y ago
      coincidental; unexpected. Bloody pedants! Learn English.
      - sjwright 14y ago
        Irony is not coincidence, unexpected or otherwise.
        gouranga 14y ago
        Open a dictionary and take a look... Here I saved you the effort seeing as you're obviously incapable: http://m.dictionary.com/d/?q=ironic&o=0&l=dir http://m.dictionary.com/d/?q=ironic&o=0&l=dir
        sjwright 14y ago
        Irony isn't a concept that lends itself to a trivial definition. That particular dictionary definition you cite isn't completely wrong, but it does suffer greatly from being overly terse. The Merriam-Webster definition is much better: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/irony http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/irony -- Furthermore, dictionary definitions aren't two way streets, not everything that fits a description therefore matches the word. Imitate, the verb, can mean to make a copy of. "Please wait while I imitate the receipt for you."
chewxy 14y ago
hah I clicked on it thinking it was the python package Humanize. Still, pretty cool
wyuenho 14y ago
This is nice if you just want a really really lightweight date humanizer with no i18n support. If you want a full-blown date/time parser/formatter/humanizer, I highly recommend moment.js http://momentjs.com/ http://momentjs.com/
- dewmop 14y ago
  Thanks, I had no idea momentjs existed. It's a lot fancier, and likely less buggy ;)
gojomo 14y ago
humanize.filesize(1234567890); // '1.15 Gb' You should use a capital 'B' for byte filesizes to avoid confusion with 'b'its. And, you might want to let the user choose between decimal or binary prefixes (rather than the 'kilo' redefinition). 1234567890 bytes is 1.23 GB in pedantic application of SI naming, as used by MacOS and Ubuntu GUIs after a certain point. 1234567890 bytes is 1.15 GiB by the IEC standard for base-2 units, which is also "1.15 GB" by the older we-hope-context-makes-things-clear tradition. See the approach of python humanize for one way to parameterize the output: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/humanize http://pypi.python.org/pypi/humanize And see the Ubuntu Units Policy for some reasonable suggestions for when to use which kinds of units: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UnitsPolicy https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UnitsPolicy

39 points by dewmop 14y ago

You should check out the 'quantification' features of this Python lib called Pattern: http://www.clips.ua.ac.be/pages/pattern-en http://www.clips.ua.ac.be/pages/pattern-en >>> from pattern.en import quantify >>> print quantify(['goose', 'goose', 'duck', 'chicken', 'chicken', 'chicken']) >>> print quantify('carrot', amount=1000) >>> print quantify({'carrot': 100, 'parrot': 20}) several chickens, a pair of geese and a duck hundreds of carrots dozens of carrots and a score of parrots This is useful functionality to include. It's practically cheating to port Python to JavaScript so it shouldn't be hard to adapt the relevant parts of the code to your project. (Well, depending on how much of it depends on the pluralization/singularization portions of Pattern.)

dewmop 14y ago
Thanks for the suggestion. I'll look into it
gouranga 14y ago
That's awesome. I needed that last week ironically. Thanks for posting.
- sjwright 14y ago
  Ironically?
  - gouranga 14y ago
    coincidental; unexpected. Bloody pedants! Learn English.
    - sjwright 14y ago
      Irony is not coincidence, unexpected or otherwise.
      - gouranga 14y ago
        Open a dictionary and take a look... Here I saved you the effort seeing as you're obviously incapable: http://m.dictionary.com/d/?q=ironic&o=0&l=dir http://m.dictionary.com/d/?q=ironic&o=0&l=dir
        sjwright 14y ago
        Irony isn't a concept that lends itself to a trivial definition. That particular dictionary definition you cite isn't completely wrong, but it does suffer greatly from being overly terse. The Merriam-Webster definition is much better: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/irony http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/irony -- Furthermore, dictionary definitions aren't two way streets, not everything that fits a description therefore matches the word. Imitate, the verb, can mean to make a copy of. "Please wait while I imitate the receipt for you."

chewxy 14y ago

hah I clicked on it thinking it was the python package Humanize. Still, pretty cool

wyuenho 14y ago

This is nice if you just want a really really lightweight date humanizer with no i18n support. If you want a full-blown date/time parser/formatter/humanizer, I highly recommend moment.js http://momentjs.com/ http://momentjs.com/

dewmop 14y ago
Thanks, I had no idea momentjs existed. It's a lot fancier, and likely less buggy ;)

gojomo 14y ago

humanize.filesize(1234567890); // '1.15 Gb' You should use a capital 'B' for byte filesizes to avoid confusion with 'b'its. And, you might want to let the user choose between decimal or binary prefixes (rather than the 'kilo' redefinition). 1234567890 bytes is 1.23 GB in pedantic application of SI naming, as used by MacOS and Ubuntu GUIs after a certain point. 1234567890 bytes is 1.15 GiB by the IEC standard for base-2 units, which is also "1.15 GB" by the older we-hope-context-makes-things-clear tradition. See the approach of python humanize for one way to parameterize the output: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/humanize http://pypi.python.org/pypi/humanize And see the Ubuntu Units Policy for some reasonable suggestions for when to use which kinds of units: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UnitsPolicy https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UnitsPolicy