The functions and classes in the humanfriendly package can be used to
make text interfaces more user friendly. Some example features:
- Parsing and formatting numbers, file sizes, pathnames and timespans in
simple, human friendly formats.
- Easy to use timers for long running operations, with human friendly
formatting of the resulting timespans.
- Prompting the user to select a choice from a list of options by typing
the option's number or a unique substring of the option.
- Terminal interaction including text styling (ANSI escape sequences),
user friendly rendering of usage messages and querying the terminal for
its size.
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