Option to output progress data to a file.

[DevMoore94]

Not sure if this would be a useful feature or not, just something that kind of popped in my head. Let me know your thoughts.

[rasbt]

Hi, Brandon, hm, I am not sure if it is really necessary to write a progress output file. But another idea would be to just send out an email notification once a ProgressBar or Percentage indicator has finished. If you like do it and don't find it to simple and boring, you are welcome to add such a feature:) -- it should be pretty straight forward using smtplib or so.

E.g., there would be an additional parameter email=None and if the user provides an email address (string) for this argument, it will send out an email once the progress bar has finished (e.g. a separate method that will be called in the the _finish method` if the bar has finished.

my_bar = pyprind.ProgBar(email='my_email')

And don't hurry, I am so busy right now that I probably won't even have time to look at it and merge it in the next couple of weeks! It is just such a weird month!

Cheers, Sebastian

[DevMoore94]

I will defiantly implement this. Are you against using Gmail's server? If not we could create a pyprind gmail account that would be responsible for sending the emails.

[rasbt]

I think this unfortunately wouldn't work since it should be something that respects the privacy of the user. Ideally, the user would set it up in a way that it sends an email to himself if it is possible. Or there might be special email services just for apps like this.

• Basically, the idea behind this feature is that you run something that might take multiple hours or days and just get a short note if it is done without constantly checking the progressbar every few hours. So, alternatively you could implement something that sends an SMS if it is finished: http://osxdaily.com/2014/03/12/send-sms-text-message-from-command-line/ But when I remember correctly, this only works within the US. And another issue would be that it wouldn't work for Windows users. Maybe there are OS alternatives and alternatives for other countries to?