support for displaying long ETAs in hours & minutes

[bmabey]

It would be helpful if long running tasks could display the ETA like: ETA: 1 hour, 23 min, 40 sec

Or something like that.

WDYT?

[rasbt]

Sounds super useful! I would suggest adding time_format parameter to ProgBar and ProgPercent that takes values 'seconds', 'hours', 'days', 'weeks' etc.

Here is a quick & dirty example of what I have in mind:

def get_time(seconds, time_format='seconds'):
    timestr = str(seconds)
    if format == 'minutes':
       minutes = seconds // 60
        seconds = seconds % 60
        timestr = '%02d:%02d' % (minutes, seconds)
    if format == 'hours':
        pass
        # not implemented yet
    if format == 'days':
        pass
        # not implemented yet
    return timestr

>>> get_time(123, time_format='minutes')
02:03

Do you want to add a function like this?

[rasbt]

Or alternatively, using strftime:

import time

def get_time(seconds, strftime='%H:%M:%S'):
    # add days
    if seconds >= 86400:
        strftime = '%d:' + strftime
        seconds -= 86400
    # add weeks
    # add months
    # add years
    return time.strftime(strftime, time.gmtime(seconds))

>>> print(get_time(123456))
01:10:17:36

Just need to be careful to deal with the overflow, e.g,.

>>> print(get_time(123456789999999))

shouldn't return

07:09:46:39

[Div44]

How should year, month and week be displayed? One way I think can be to display years, weeks, days, hours, minutes and seconds as YY:WW:DD::HH:MM:SS.

[rasbt]

Hm, I am not sure if we necessarily need to add days, weeks, and years. I am afraid that the command line output will be to wide in this case. I really think hours would already by sufficient; people are running tasks not more than a few days at max, and E.g., if the output is 168:00:00, it's also kind of obvious that it's a week -- the PBS scheduler is using the same h:mm:ss output btw, which most people are familiar with.

[rasbt]

The suggestions have been addressed in pull request #19

Thanks everyone!