Better control over the TableReport's progress display

[jeromedockes]

Problem Description

In some cases the TableReport progress display clutters the output.

• it uses carriage return to update the line it prints. in some cases (eg when stdout is a file, when rendering notebooks with nbconvert or generating slides with quarto) this just results in many lines which the user may want to avoid. then we may want it to just print an increasing row of "." or similar

TODO

• add a parameter to control the verbosity: DONE in Add a verbosity parameter to TableReport to control the printing of messages in stdout when opening summary report #1182 and add verbose parameter to print_display to toggle on or off printing of progress messages when generating table report #1188
• write to stderr not stdout
• ATM we have 2 verbosity level. add a 3rd one showing only a line of dots? (like in pytest)
• adapt the default verbosity depending on whether stderr is a tty?

[glemaitre]

Indeed, I was going to show on such case when creating a jupyter book:

[reshamas]

I am working on this: Pearson's correlation coefficient.
skrub/_column_associations.py

via: PyLadiesCon 2024 online sprint