Added note about (sometimes) invisible characters in the multi progress bar

wolph · wolph · commit 57de6b8419ee · 2019-09-24T14:06:34.000+02:00
diff --git a/examples.py b/examples.py
@@ -113,7 +113,7 @@ def multi_range_bar_example():
 
 
 @example
-def multi_progress_bar_example(left=False):
+def multi_progress_bar_example(left=True):
     jobs = [
         # Each job takes between 1 and 10 steps to complete
         [0, random.randint(1, 10)]
diff --git a/progressbar/widgets.py b/progressbar/widgets.py
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
 from __future__ import absolute_import
 from __future__ import division
 from __future__ import print_function
@@ -811,7 +812,12 @@ def __call__(self, progress, data, width):
 
 
 class MultiProgressBar(MultiRangeBar):
-    def __init__(self, name, markers='         ', **kwargs):
+    def __init__(self,
+                 name,
+                 # NOTE: the markers are not whitespace even though some
+                 # terminals don't show the characters correctly!
+                 markers='         ',
+                 **kwargs):
         MultiRangeBar.__init__(self, name=name,
                                markers=list(reversed(markers)), **kwargs)
 
diff --git a/tests/test_multibar.py b/tests/test_multibar.py
@@ -17,4 +17,4 @@ def test_multi_progress_bar_out_of_range():
 
 def test_multi_progress_bar_fill_left():
     import examples
-    return examples.multi_progress_bar_example(True)
+    return examples.multi_progress_bar_example(False)
