Example on how to do dynamic stats collection?

[joeshaw]

(I couldn't find any other good contact info for this software, so I'm filing it as an issue. It would be good to add an example of this to the README. :)

What's the best way to dynamically define stats to collect? I don't know until runtime what the different possible values are. (Think different "types" that are pulled from a database at runtime.)

data = get_data()
stats = scales.collection('/data', *[scales.IntStat(n) for n in names])

for d in data:
    # increment the count
    setattr(stats, d, getattr(stats, d) + 1)

This is kinda ugly but it works. Is there a nicer way?

[robbywalker]

You're probably looking for an IntDictStat - I added an example in the Class Stats section of the README. Thanks!

[joeshaw]

Awesome! This is exactly what I was looking for, thank you.