code: def human_readable_number(number, suffix=""):
      
      for unit in ["", "K", "M", "G", "T", "P", "E", "Z"]:
          if abs(number) < 1024.0:
              return "%3.1f%s%s" % (number, unit, suffix)
          number /= 1024.0
      return "%.1f%s%s" % (number, "Y", suffix)
docs: Format the given number into a human-readable string.
  
      Code adapted from http://stackoverflow.com/a/1094933
  
      :param variant number: the number (int or float)
      :param string suffix: the unit of the number
      :rtype: string