Super-quick Start

• requirements: python versions 3.4+

• install through pip: $ pip install report-on-interval

Additional Options

The report_on_interval function has some additional arguments that may be useful:

• message

  Supply your own message for the report:

  for bug in report_on_interval(
          bug_generator,
          message='{i}/{n} little buggers squished',
  ):
      squash_bug(bug)

• item_count

  If you are looping over an iterator that produces items programatically, you absolutely should provide this if you know the total number of items. Otherwise, report_on_interval will convert the iterable to a list, and, poof!, the benefits of programatically producing items disapears. A great example of this is iterating over the results from a SQLAlchemy query:

  query = session.query(MyModel).filter(MyModel.column > 0)
  for row in report_on_interval(
          query,
          item_count=query.count(),
  ):
      process_row(row)

• printer

  Supply a different printer than the default of printing to standard out. This is often an application logger:

  from my_app.logging import logger
  for cheese in report_on_interval(cheese_shop, printer=logger):
      request_cheese(cheese)

• get_deltas

  Provide your own method for computing the reporting interval. By default, the compute_reporting_interval method is used. This method prints after every 1% is processed for iterables with over 100k items, after every 10% for iterables over 30 items, and after every item for anything else

  def deltafier(n):
      return n // 7
  for marble in report_on_interval(bag, get_deltas=deltafier):
      shoot(marble)

• report_at_end

  Print the progress report after the last item is processed. Maybe you want a report when your loop is done because you don’t report it yourself. There’s no accounting for tastes…

• extra_actions

  Provide a list of additional tasks to perform on each reporting interval. One use for this is to regularly flush updates out to your database on the interval as well as reporting progress

  for new_thingie in report_on_interval(
      produce_new_thingies,
      item_count=thingie_total,
      extra_actions=[lambda: session.flush()],
  ):
      thingie.update(doodad=None)

• extras_at_end

  Also perform the extra actions after finishing the loop. Note that like the report_at_end argument, if the count of items in the iterable is an exact multiple of the reporting interval, this will not result in an extra report and running the extras a second time. The logic in report_on_interval makes sure of that