[yt-dev] Notebook progress bar?

[Matthew Turk]

Yes, I think this is not sufficient to justify a hard dependency. But
perhaps a solution can be found. I'm surprised ipython itself doesn't have
one.

On Fri, Oct 24, 2014, 12:42 PM John ZuHone <jzuhone at gmail.com> wrote:

> There is one issue with that, which is that so far we have resisted making
> astropy a hard dependency. If we wanted to use their progressbar we'd have
> to do so (this could always be an on-demand import, I guess).
>
> I like astropy and use it a lot, but I agree that we should keep the
> number of hard dependencies to an absolute minimum. There's nothing
> stopping us from looking at that code and implementing it ourselves, I
> guess...
>
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> On Oct 24, 2014, at 12:38 PM, Stuart Mumford <stuart at mumford.me.uk> wrote:
>
> Hey,
>
> Just a quick note to point out that astropy have just implemented this in
> master I believe.
>
> Stuart
> On 24 Oct 2014 16:36, "Nathan Goldbaum" <nathan12343 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On Friday, October 24, 2014, John ZuHone <jzuhone at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hey all,
>>>
>>> I know we nixed the previous notebook progress bar because it was really
>>> bogging things down—but it would be handy to have one, and there are some
>>> ASCII-only implementations that probably won’t use as much memory.
>>
>>
>> That wasn't the issue, it was buggy and was leaving markup behind in the
>> notebook after cleaning itself up.  This led to things like output cells
>> increasing in size with each progress bar used and ballooning JavaScript
>> and HTML markup embedded in the notebook JSON document.
>>
>> It's also tricky because the maintainer of the progress bar we use isn't
>> terribly responsive and wasn't interested in integrating a notebook-aware
>> version last time I checked.
>>
>> That said, there is a progress bar widget in IPython 2.0 that might be
>> useful.
>>
>> I also haven't looked into this in a year or so, it's possible the bugs
>> that forced us to drop the notebook-aware progress bar have been fixed.
>>
>>
>>>
>>> Any thoughts? I’d be happy to look into it myself.
>>>
>>> Best,
>>>
>>> John
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