--verbose is still rather taciturn

[mmtrebuchet]

It'd be nice if --verbose added some more information about progress as the algorithm runs. As it stands, --verbose adds exactly two output lines in the entire program. While the multi-stage nature of the Modisco algorithm means that a progress bar is not very meaningful, I'd like to get updates to know how far the program has gotten, especially when I do something weird and it crashes. Particularly when I'm starting out with a project, I'd like to know if my modisco run is going to take thirty minutes or five hours.

Even if there's not a time estimate, just seeing an occasional

INFO: 2024-01-29 13:38:34 tfmodisco.py:174: Positive seqlets refinement, phase 3/5, round 1/2

in the logs would be nice.

I'm very fond of the logging library in Python, since you just have to configure the logger once and then you don't have to pass a verbose parameter to every function call, but that's definitely personal taste.

[jmschrei]

Thanks for the suggestion. I agree that this would be useful, but I think it's unlikely that I have time to modify tfmodisco in any way in the near future.