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Solve the following problem using Python, implementing the functions described below, one line at a time
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Description:

def _size_fmt(num):
    '''
    Format bytes as human-readable file sizes
    '''
    try:
        num = int(num)
        if num < 1024:
            return '{0} bytes'.format(num)
        num /= 1024.0
        for unit in ('KiB', 'MiB', 'GiB', 'TiB', 'PiB'):
            if num < 1024.0:
                return '{0:3.1f} {1}'.format(num, unit)
            num /= 1024.0
    except Exception:
        log.error('Unable to format file size for \'%s\'', num)
        return 'unknown'