Request - display counters

[thorntonjohn]

It would be nice to add counters that could be incremented and displayed in the progress bar. For example:

with alive_bar(len(all_lines), counters["filtered", "success"]) as bar:
  ...
  if success:
    bar(counter="success")
  else if filtered:
    bar(counter="filtered")

|█████████████████████| 5530/5532 [90%] in 43.4s (127.43/s) success: 5000 filtered:530

[rsalmei]

Hey, I like the idea!
It may take a while until I have time to, but I'll implement it 👍

[kimvais]

I was about to suggest almost the same thing - but something like two- or multi-colored / or "-symboled" bar, with an api like:

with alive_bar(choices={True: Color.GREEN, False: Color.RED}]): 
      if ...:
         bar(True)
      else:
         bar(False)

class SomeEnum(enum.StrEnum):
     FOO = '♥️'
     BAR = '☠️'
     BAZ = '❌'

with alive_bar(choices=SomeEnum):  
     ...
      bar(SomeEnum.FOO)

this would be very useful for tasks like classification where you have e.g. 10k input items but no clue about distribution before running it.

Also if the processing of separate branches takes vastly different times, this data could be perhaps used to get better estimates on the ETA 🤔 .