[DOC BUG] `rich.progress.track()` documentation uses "sequence" instead of "iterable"

[andrei-korshikov]

https://rich.readthedocs.io/en/latest/reference/progress.html#rich.progress.track reads:

Parameters:
sequence (Iterable[ProgressType]) – A sequence (must support “len”) you wish to iterate over.

In fact, the sequence parameter is not a sequence, it is an iterable (which is correctly detected by a documentation builder, btw), so it doesn't have to support len.

My suggestions:

• add a parameter named iterable with the same meaning as sequence,
• of course, keep sequence for backward compatibility,
  (edit: I do agree with current solution. Thank you.)
• maybe change the type in the source code from Sequence | Iterable to just Iterable.

Sample program to play with (as you see, concurrent.futures.as_completed() is not a sequence—it is a generator—so it does not have len, and despite of that the code works correctly):

#! /usr/bin/env --split-string=uv run --script

# /// script
# requires-python = ">=3.13"
# dependencies = [
#   "rich",
# ]
# ///

import concurrent.futures
import random
import time

import rich.progress
import rich.traceback


def main() -> None:
    """Top-level logic."""
    rich.traceback.install(show_locals=True)

    with concurrent.futures.ProcessPoolExecutor() as executor:

        futures = { executor.submit(simulate_job) for i in range(15) }

        for future in rich.progress.track(
                concurrent.futures.as_completed(futures),
                description='Working…',
                # total=len(futures),
                ):
            print('Something is done!')
        

def simulate_job() -> None:
    """Job simulator — sleep for a random amount of time."""
    time.sleep(
        random.uniform(0.1, 1.3),
        )
        

if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()

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