Progress bar description

[apacha]

MPIRE uses TQDM as a progress-bar, which is very nice. However, it would be great if there was the possibility to somehow control the progress-bar with the parameters that are available, e.g., the description. We have several progress bars in our app and it would be nice to see not only that something is happening, but also what is happening.

Do you think that would be a possible expansion of MPIRE? Is there another way how you can configure TQDM? If yes, where can I find this information in the documentation?

[sybrenjansen]

I can add a progress_bar_options parameter to the map functions that is then passed on to the tqdm progress bar upon creation. As the progress bar lives in another thread and is not accessible, live updates to the description would require quite the overhaul.

Would this approach be acceptable for your usecase?

[apacha]

Having a single progress_bar_options parameter would be absolutely sufficient, as most options like the description or the smoothing only needs to be set once while creating the progress bar anyway.

[sybrenjansen]

Added to v2.6.0