glances display: does G mean 10^9 or 2^30 bytes?

[Twixtfanatic]

I want to write a memory-hungry app, every Megabyte of RAM counts.
Thanks for clarifying!

[nicolargo]

Hi @Twixtfanatic,

sorry for the respond delay.

The following method is used to convert units to human readable string:

def string_value_to_float(s):
    """Convert a string with a value and an unit to a float.
    Example:
    '12.5 MB' -> 12500000.0
    '32.5 GB' -> 32500000000.0
    Args:
        s (string): Input string with value and unit
    Output:
        float: The value in float
    """
    convert_dict = {
        None: 1,
        'B': 1,
        'KB': 1000,
        'MB': 1000000,
        'GB': 1000000000,
        'TB': 1000000000000,
        'PB': 1000000000000000,
    }
    unpack_string = [
        i[0] if i[1] == '' else i[1].upper() for i in re.findall(r'([\d.]+)|([^\d.]+)', s.replace(' ', ''))
    ]
    if len(unpack_string) == 2:
        value, unit = unpack_string
    elif len(unpack_string) == 1:
        value = unpack_string[0]
        unit = None
    else:
        return None
    try:
        value = float(unpack_string[0])
    except ValueError:
        return None
    return value * convert_dict[unit]

So GB mean 10^9 bytes.