bio2zarr 0.1.1__tar.gz → 0.1.3__tar.gz

{bio2zarr-0.1.1 → bio2zarr-0.1.3}/.github/workflows/ci.yml

@@ -24,17 +24,21 @@ jobs:
         # Use macos-13 because pip binary packages for ARM aren't
         # available for many dependencies
         os: [macos-13, macos-14, ubuntu-latest]
-        python-version: ["3.9", "3.10", "3.11"]
+        python-version: ["3.9", "3.10", "3.11", "3.12"]
         exclude:
           # Just run macos tests on one Python version
           - os: macos-13
             python-version: "3.10"
           - os: macos-13
             python-version: "3.11"
+          - os: macos-13
+            python-version: "3.12"
           - os: macos-14
             python-version: "3.9"
           - os: macos-14
             python-version: "3.10"
+          - os: macos-14
+            python-version: "3.12"
     steps:
       - uses: actions/checkout@v4
       - name: Set up Python ${{ matrix.python-version }}
@@ -105,3 +109,48 @@ jobs:
           vcfpartition --help
           python -m bio2zarr vcfpartition --help
 
+  test-numpy-version:
+    name: Test numpy versions
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    strategy:
+      matrix:
+        numpy: ["==1.26", ">=2"]
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+      - uses: actions/setup-python@v5
+        with:
+          python-version: '3.11'
+      - name: Install dependencies
+        run: |
+          python -m pip install --upgrade pip
+          python -m pip install '.[dev]'
+      - name: Install numpy${{ matrix.numpy }}
+        run: |
+          python -m pip install 'numpy${{ matrix.numpy }}'
+      - name: Run tests
+        run: |
+          # We just run the CLI tests here because it doesn't require other upstream
+          # packages like sgkit (which are tangled up with the numpy 2 dependency)
+          python -m pytest tests/test_cli.py
+
+  test-zarr-version:
+    name: Test Zarr versions
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    strategy:
+      matrix:
+        zarr: ["==2.18.3", ">=3.0.3"]
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+      - uses: actions/setup-python@v5
+        with:
+          python-version: '3.11'
+      - name: Install dependencies
+        run: |
+          python -m pip install --upgrade pip
+          python -m pip install '.[dev]'
+      - name: Install zarr${{ matrix.zarr }}
+        run: |
+          python -m pip install 'zarr${{ matrix.zarr }}'
+      - name: Run tests
+        run: |
+          python -m pytest

{bio2zarr-0.1.1 → bio2zarr-0.1.3}/CHANGELOG.md

@@ -1,8 +1,32 @@
+# 0.1.3 2025-03-04
+
+- Fix missing dependency issue for packaging
+
+- Support out-of-order field definitions in the VCF header (#322, @ACEnglish)
+
+# 0.1.2 2025-02-04
+
+- Reduce memory requirement for encoding genotypes with large sample sizes
+
+- Transpose default chunk sizes to 1000 variants and 10,000 samples (issue:300)
+
+- Add chunksize options to mkschema (issue:294)
+
+- Add experimental support for local alleles.
+
+- Add experimental support for ``region_index``
+
+Breaking changes
+
+- ICF metadata format version bumped to ensure long-term compatility between numpy 1.26.x
+  and numpy >= 2. Existing ICFs will need to be recreated.
+
+
 # 0.1.1 2024-06-19
 
 Maintenance release:
 
-- Pin numpy to < 2 
+- Pin numpy to < 2
 - Pin Zarr to < 3
 
 # 0.1.0 2024-06-10

{bio2zarr-0.1.1 → bio2zarr-0.1.3}/PKG-INFO

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
-Metadata-Version: 2.1
+Metadata-Version: 2.2
 Name: bio2zarr
-Version: 0.1.1
+Version: 0.1.3
 Summary: Convert bioinformatics data to Zarr
 Author-email: sgkit Developers <project@sgkit.dev>
 License:                                  Apache License
@@ -219,11 +219,12 @@ Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3
 Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.9
 Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.10
 Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.11
+Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.12
 Classifier: Topic :: Scientific/Engineering
 Requires-Python: >=3.9
 Description-Content-Type: text/markdown
 License-File: LICENSE
-Requires-Dist: numpy<2
+Requires-Dist: numpy>=1.26
 Requires-Dist: zarr<3,>=2.17
 Requires-Dist: click
 Requires-Dist: tabulate
@@ -232,6 +233,7 @@ Requires-Dist: humanfriendly
 Requires-Dist: cyvcf2
 Requires-Dist: bed_reader
 Provides-Extra: dev
+Requires-Dist: hypothesis-vcf; extra == "dev"
 Requires-Dist: msprime; extra == "dev"
 Requires-Dist: pysam; extra == "dev"
 Requires-Dist: pytest; extra == "dev"

{bio2zarr-0.1.1 → bio2zarr-0.1.3}/bio2zarr/_version.py

@@ -1,8 +1,13 @@
-# file generated by setuptools_scm
+# file generated by setuptools-scm
 # don't change, don't track in version control
+
+__all__ = ["__version__", "__version_tuple__", "version", "version_tuple"]
+
 TYPE_CHECKING = False
 if TYPE_CHECKING:
-    from typing import Tuple, Union
+    from typing import Tuple
+    from typing import Union
+
     VERSION_TUPLE = Tuple[Union[int, str], ...]
 else:
     VERSION_TUPLE = object
@@ -12,5 +17,5 @@ __version__: str
 __version_tuple__: VERSION_TUPLE
 version_tuple: VERSION_TUPLE
 
-__version__ = version = '0.1.1'
-__version_tuple__ = version_tuple = (0, 1, 1)
+__version__ = version = '0.1.3'
+__version_tuple__ = version_tuple = (0, 1, 3)

{bio2zarr-0.1.1 → bio2zarr-0.1.3}/bio2zarr/cli.py

@@ -149,6 +149,13 @@ max_memory = click.option(
     help="An approximate bound on overall memory usage (e.g. 10G),",
 )
 
+local_alleles = click.option(
+    "--local-alleles/--no-local-alleles",
+    show_default=True,
+    default=False,
+    help="Use local allele fields to reduce the storage requirements of the output.",
+)
+
 
 def setup_logging(verbosity):
     level = "WARNING"
@@ -312,7 +319,7 @@ def dexplode_finalise(icf_path, verbose):
 
 
 @click.command
-@click.argument("path", type=click.Path())
+@click.argument("path", type=click.Path(exists=True))
 @verbose
 def inspect(path, verbose):
     """
@@ -325,12 +332,26 @@ def inspect(path, verbose):
 
 @click.command
 @icf_path
-def mkschema(icf_path):
+@variants_chunk_size
+@samples_chunk_size
+@local_alleles
+def mkschema(icf_path, variants_chunk_size, samples_chunk_size, local_alleles):
     """
     Generate a schema for zarr encoding
     """
+    if local_alleles:
+        click.echo(
+            "WARNING: Local alleles support is preliminary; please use with caution.",
+            err=True,
+        )
     stream = click.get_text_stream("stdout")
-    vcf2zarr.mkschema(icf_path, stream)
+    vcf2zarr.mkschema(
+        icf_path,
+        stream,
+        variants_chunk_size=variants_chunk_size,
+        samples_chunk_size=samples_chunk_size,
+        local_alleles=local_alleles,
+    )
 
 
 @click.command
@@ -469,6 +490,7 @@ def dencode_finalise(zarr_path, verbose, progress):
 @verbose
 @progress
 @worker_processes
+@local_alleles
 def convert_vcf(
     vcfs,
     zarr_path,
@@ -478,6 +500,7 @@ def convert_vcf(
     verbose,
     progress,
     worker_processes,
+    local_alleles,
 ):
     """
     Convert input VCF(s) directly to vcfzarr (not recommended for large files).
@@ -491,6 +514,7 @@ def convert_vcf(
         samples_chunk_size=samples_chunk_size,
         show_progress=progress,
         worker_processes=worker_processes,
+        local_alleles=local_alleles,
     )
 
 
@@ -560,7 +584,7 @@ plink2zarr.add_command(convert_plink)
 
 @click.command
 @version
-@click.argument("vcf_path", type=click.Path(exists=True, dir_okay=False))
+@vcfs
 @verbose
 @num_partitions
 @click.option(
@@ -570,12 +594,16 @@ plink2zarr.add_command(convert_plink)
     default=None,
     help="Target (compressed) size of VCF partitions, e.g. 100KB, 10MiB, 1G.",
 )
-def vcfpartition(vcf_path, verbose, num_partitions, partition_size):
+def vcfpartition(vcfs, verbose, num_partitions, partition_size):
     """
-    Output bcftools region strings that partition an indexed VCF/BCF file
+    Output bcftools region strings that partition the indexed VCF/BCF files
     into either an approximate number of parts (-n), or parts of approximately
     a given size (-s). One of -n or -s must be supplied.
 
+    If multiple VCF/BCF files are provided, the number of parts (-n) is
+    interpreted as the total number of partitions across all the files,
+    and the partitions are distributed evenly among the files.
+
     Note that both the number of partitions and sizes are a target, and the
     returned number of partitions may not exactly correspond. In particular,
     there is a maximum level of granularity determined by the associated index
@@ -590,9 +618,15 @@ def vcfpartition(vcf_path, verbose, num_partitions, partition_size):
             "Either --num-partitions or --partition-size must be specified"
         )
 
-    indexed_vcf = vcf_utils.IndexedVcf(vcf_path)
-    regions = indexed_vcf.partition_into_regions(
-        num_parts=num_partitions, target_part_size=partition_size
-    )
-    for region in regions:
-        click.echo(f"{region}\t{vcf_path}")
+    if num_partitions is None:
+        num_parts_per_path = None
+    else:
+        num_parts_per_path = max(1, num_partitions // len(vcfs))
+
+    for vcf_path in vcfs:
+        indexed_vcf = vcf_utils.IndexedVcf(vcf_path)
+        regions = indexed_vcf.partition_into_regions(
+            num_parts=num_parts_per_path, target_part_size=partition_size
+        )
+        for region in regions:
+            click.echo(f"{region}\t{vcf_path}")

{bio2zarr-0.1.1 → bio2zarr-0.1.3}/bio2zarr/core.py

@@ -63,6 +63,27 @@ def chunk_aligned_slices(z, n, max_chunks=None):
     return slices
 
 
+def first_dim_slice_iter(z, start, stop):
+    """
+    Efficiently iterate over the specified slice of the first dimension of the zarr
+    array z.
+    """
+    chunk_size = z.chunks[0]
+    first_chunk = start // chunk_size
+    last_chunk = (stop // chunk_size) + (stop % chunk_size != 0)
+    for chunk in range(first_chunk, last_chunk):
+        Z = z.blocks[chunk]
+        chunk_start = chunk * chunk_size
+        chunk_stop = chunk_start + chunk_size
+        slice_start = None
+        if start > chunk_start:
+            slice_start = start - chunk_start
+        slice_stop = None
+        if stop < chunk_stop:
+            slice_stop = stop - chunk_start
+        yield from Z[slice_start:slice_stop]
+
+
 def du(path):
     """
     Return the total bytes stored at this path.
@@ -113,13 +134,16 @@ def cancel_futures(futures):
 class BufferedArray:
     array: zarr.Array
     array_offset: int
+    name: str
     buff: np.ndarray
     buffer_row: int
+    max_buff_size: int = 0
 
-    def __init__(self, array, offset):
+    def __init__(self, array, offset, name="Unknown"):
         self.array = array
         self.array_offset = offset
         assert offset % array.chunks[0] == 0
+        self.name = name
         dims = list(array.shape)
         dims[0] = min(array.chunks[0], array.shape[0])
         self.buff = np.empty(dims, dtype=array.dtype)
@@ -150,11 +174,17 @@ class BufferedArray:
                     self.buff[: self.buffer_row], self.array, self.array_offset
                 )
             logger.debug(
-                f"Flushed <{self.array.name} {self.array.shape} "
+                f"Flushed <{self.name} {self.array.shape} "
                 f"{self.array.dtype}> "
                 f"{self.array_offset}:{self.array_offset + self.buffer_row}"
                 f"{self.buff.nbytes / 2**20: .2f}Mb"
             )
+            # Note this is inaccurate for string data as we're just reporting the
+            # size of the container. When we switch the numpy 2 StringDtype this
+            # should improve and we can get more visibility on how memory
+            # is being used.
+            # https://github.com/sgkit-dev/bio2zarr/issues/30
+            self.max_buff_size = max(self.max_buff_size, self.buff.nbytes)
             self.array_offset += self.variants_chunk_size
             self.buffer_row = 0
 

{bio2zarr-0.1.1 → bio2zarr-0.1.3}/bio2zarr/plink.py

@@ -6,6 +6,8 @@ import numcodecs
 import numpy as np
 import zarr
 
+from bio2zarr.zarr_utils import ZARR_FORMAT_KWARGS
+
 from . import core
 
 logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
@@ -17,8 +19,7 @@ def encode_genotypes_slice(bed_path, zarr_path, start, stop):
     # the correct approach is, but it is important to note that the
     # 0th allele is *not* necessarily the REF for these datasets.
     bed = bed_reader.open_bed(bed_path, num_threads=1, count_A1=False)
-    store = zarr.DirectoryStore(zarr_path)
-    root = zarr.group(store=store)
+    root = zarr.open(store=zarr_path, mode="a", **ZARR_FORMAT_KWARGS)
     gt = core.BufferedArray(root["call_genotype"], start)
     gt_mask = core.BufferedArray(root["call_genotype_mask"], start)
     gt_phased = core.BufferedArray(root["call_genotype_phased"], start)
@@ -73,8 +74,7 @@ def convert(
     if variants_chunk_size is None:
         variants_chunk_size = 10_000
 
-    store = zarr.DirectoryStore(zarr_path)
-    root = zarr.group(store=store, overwrite=True)
+    root = zarr.open_group(store=zarr_path, mode="w", **ZARR_FORMAT_KWARGS)
 
     ploidy = 2
     shape = [m, n]
@@ -88,7 +88,8 @@ def convert(
 
     a = root.array(
         "sample_id",
-        bed.iid,
+        data=bed.iid,
+        shape=bed.iid.shape,
         dtype="str",
         compressor=default_compressor,
         chunks=(samples_chunk_size,),
@@ -100,7 +101,8 @@ def convert(
     # fetching repeatedly from bim file
     a = root.array(
         "variant_position",
-        bed.bp_position,
+        data=bed.bp_position,
+        shape=bed.bp_position.shape,
         dtype=np.int32,
         compressor=default_compressor,
         chunks=(variants_chunk_size,),
@@ -111,41 +113,45 @@ def convert(
     alleles = np.stack([bed.allele_1, bed.allele_2], axis=1)
     a = root.array(
         "variant_allele",
-        alleles,
+        data=alleles,
+        shape=alleles.shape,
         dtype="str",
         compressor=default_compressor,
-        chunks=(variants_chunk_size,),
+        chunks=(variants_chunk_size, alleles.shape[1]),
     )
     a.attrs["_ARRAY_DIMENSIONS"] = ["variants", "alleles"]
     logger.debug("encoded variant_allele")
 
     # TODO remove this?
     a = root.empty(
-        "call_genotype_phased",
+        name="call_genotype_phased",
         dtype="bool",
         shape=list(shape),
         chunks=list(chunks),
         compressor=default_compressor,
+        **ZARR_FORMAT_KWARGS,
     )
     a.attrs["_ARRAY_DIMENSIONS"] = list(dimensions)
 
     shape += [ploidy]
     dimensions += ["ploidy"]
     a = root.empty(
-        "call_genotype",
+        name="call_genotype",
         dtype="i1",
         shape=list(shape),
         chunks=list(chunks),
         compressor=default_compressor,
+        **ZARR_FORMAT_KWARGS,
     )
     a.attrs["_ARRAY_DIMENSIONS"] = list(dimensions)
 
     a = root.empty(
-        "call_genotype_mask",
+        name="call_genotype_mask",
         dtype="bool",
         shape=list(shape),
         chunks=list(chunks),
         compressor=default_compressor,
+        **ZARR_FORMAT_KWARGS,
     )
     a.attrs["_ARRAY_DIMENSIONS"] = list(dimensions)
 
@@ -154,7 +160,7 @@ def convert(
     num_slices = max(1, worker_processes * 4)
     slices = core.chunk_aligned_slices(a, num_slices)
 
-    total_chunks = sum(a.nchunks for a in root.values())
+    total_chunks = sum(a.nchunks for _, a in root.arrays())
 
     progress_config = core.ProgressConfig(
         total=total_chunks, title="Convert", units="chunks", show=show_progress
@@ -171,8 +177,7 @@ def convert(
 # FIXME do this more efficiently - currently reading the whole thing
 # in for convenience, and also comparing call-by-call
 def validate(bed_path, zarr_path):
-    store = zarr.DirectoryStore(zarr_path)
-    root = zarr.group(store=store)
+    root = zarr.open(store=zarr_path, mode="r")
     call_genotype = root["call_genotype"][:]
 
     bed = bed_reader.open_bed(bed_path, count_A1=False, num_threads=1)

{bio2zarr-0.1.1 → bio2zarr-0.1.3}/bio2zarr/vcf2zarr/icf.py

@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ class VcfFieldSummary(core.JsonDataclass):
         return VcfFieldSummary(**d)
 
 
-@dataclasses.dataclass
+@dataclasses.dataclass(order=True)
 class VcfField:
     category: str
     name: str
@@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ class VcfPartition:
     num_records: int = -1
 
 
-ICF_METADATA_FORMAT_VERSION = "0.3"
+ICF_METADATA_FORMAT_VERSION = "0.4"
 ICF_DEFAULT_COMPRESSOR = numcodecs.Blosc(
     cname="zstd", clevel=7, shuffle=numcodecs.Blosc.NOSHUFFLE
 )
@@ -192,6 +192,16 @@ class IcfMetadata(core.JsonDataclass):
         d["contigs"] = [Contig(**cd) for cd in d["contigs"]]
         return IcfMetadata(**d)
 
+    def __eq__(self, other):
+        if not isinstance(other, IcfMetadata):
+            return NotImplemented
+        return (
+            self.samples == other.samples
+            and self.contigs == other.contigs
+            and self.filters == other.filters
+            and sorted(self.fields) == sorted(other.fields)
+        )
+
 
 def fixed_vcf_field_definitions():
     def make_field_def(name, vcf_type, vcf_number):
@@ -212,6 +222,7 @@ def fixed_vcf_field_definitions():
         make_field_def("FILTERS", "String", "."),
         make_field_def("REF", "String", "1"),
         make_field_def("ALT", "String", "."),
+        make_field_def("rlen", "Integer", "1"),  # computed field
     ]
     return fields
 
@@ -240,7 +251,7 @@ def scan_vcf(path, target_num_partitions):
         for h in vcf.header_iter():
             if h["HeaderType"] in ["INFO", "FORMAT"]:
                 field = VcfField.from_header(h)
-                if field.name == "GT":
+                if h["HeaderType"] == "FORMAT" and field.name == "GT":
                     field.vcf_type = "Integer"
                     field.vcf_number = "."
                 fields.append(field)
@@ -300,7 +311,11 @@ def scan_vcfs(paths, show_progress, target_num_partitions, worker_processes=1):
     )
     with core.ParallelWorkManager(worker_processes, progress_config) as pwm:
         for path in paths:
-            pwm.submit(scan_vcf, path, max(1, target_num_partitions // len(paths)))
+            pwm.submit(
+                scan_vcf,
+                path,
+                max(1, target_num_partitions // len(paths)),
+            )
         results = list(pwm.results_as_completed())
 
     # Sort to make the ordering deterministic
@@ -408,7 +423,7 @@ def sanitise_value_float_1d(buff, j, value):
     if value is None:
         buff[j] = constants.FLOAT32_MISSING
     else:
-        value = np.array(value, ndmin=1, dtype=buff.dtype, copy=False)
+        value = np.array(value, ndmin=1, dtype=buff.dtype, copy=True)
         # numpy will map None values to Nan, but we need a
         # specific NaN
         value[np.isnan(value)] = constants.FLOAT32_MISSING
@@ -422,7 +437,7 @@ def sanitise_value_float_2d(buff, j, value):
         buff[j] = constants.FLOAT32_MISSING
     else:
         # print("value = ", value)
-        value = np.array(value, ndmin=2, dtype=buff.dtype, copy=False)
+        value = np.array(value, ndmin=2, dtype=buff.dtype, copy=True)
         buff[j] = constants.FLOAT32_FILL
         buff[j, :, : value.shape[1]] = value
 
@@ -432,7 +447,7 @@ def sanitise_int_array(value, ndmin, dtype):
         value = [
             constants.VCF_INT_MISSING if x is None else x for x in value
         ]  # NEEDS TEST
-    value = np.array(value, ndmin=ndmin, copy=False)
+    value = np.array(value, ndmin=ndmin, copy=True)
     value[value == constants.VCF_INT_MISSING] = -1
     value[value == constants.VCF_INT_FILL] = -2
     # TODO watch out for clipping here!
@@ -494,15 +509,15 @@ class VcfValueTransformer:
     def transform(self, vcf_value):
         if isinstance(vcf_value, tuple):
             vcf_value = [self.missing if v is None else v for v in vcf_value]
-        value = np.array(vcf_value, ndmin=self.dimension, copy=False)
+        value = np.array(vcf_value, ndmin=self.dimension, copy=True)
         return value
 
     def transform_and_update_bounds(self, vcf_value):
         if vcf_value is None:
             return None
+        # print(self, self.field.full_name, "T", vcf_value)
         value = self.transform(vcf_value)
         self.update_bounds(value)
-        # print(self.field.full_name, "T", vcf_value, "->", value)
         return value
 
 
@@ -531,13 +546,15 @@ class FloatValueTransformer(VcfValueTransformer):
 class StringValueTransformer(VcfValueTransformer):
     def update_bounds(self, value):
         summary = self.field.summary
-        number = value.shape[-1]
+        if self.field.category == "FORMAT":
+            number = max(len(v) for v in value)
+        else:
+            number = value.shape[-1]
         # TODO would be nice to report string lengths, but not
         # really necessary.
         summary.max_number = max(summary.max_number, number)
 
     def transform(self, vcf_value):
-        # print("transform", vcf_value)
         if self.dimension == 1:
             value = np.array(list(vcf_value.split(",")))
         else:
@@ -853,11 +870,11 @@ class IntermediateColumnarFormat(collections.abc.Mapping):
 
     def summary_table(self):
         data = []
-        for name, col in self.fields.items():
-            summary = col.vcf_field.summary
+        for name, icf_field in self.fields.items():
+            summary = icf_field.vcf_field.summary
             d = {
                 "name": name,
-                "type": col.vcf_field.vcf_type,
+                "type": icf_field.vcf_field.vcf_type,
                 "chunks": summary.num_chunks,
                 "size": core.display_size(summary.uncompressed_size),
                 "compressed": core.display_size(summary.compressed_size),
@@ -962,7 +979,7 @@ class IntermediateColumnarFormatWriter:
         compressor=None,
     ):
         if self.path.exists():
-            raise ValueError("ICF path already exists")
+            raise ValueError(f"ICF path already exists: {self.path}")
         if compressor is None:
             compressor = ICF_DEFAULT_COMPRESSOR
         vcfs = [pathlib.Path(vcf) for vcf in vcfs]
@@ -1009,8 +1026,8 @@ class IntermediateColumnarFormatWriter:
         self.path.mkdir()
         self.wip_path.mkdir()
         for field in self.metadata.fields:
-            col_path = get_vcf_field_path(self.path, field)
-            col_path.mkdir(parents=True)
+            field_path = get_vcf_field_path(self.path, field)
+            field_path.mkdir(parents=True)
 
     def load_partition_summaries(self):
         summaries = []
@@ -1074,13 +1091,19 @@ class IntermediateColumnarFormatWriter:
                     tcw.append("FILTERS", variant.FILTERS)
                     tcw.append("REF", variant.REF)
                     tcw.append("ALT", variant.ALT)
+                    tcw.append("rlen", variant.end - variant.start)
                     for field in info_fields:
                         tcw.append(field.full_name, variant.INFO.get(field.name, None))
                     if has_gt:
-                        tcw.append("FORMAT/GT", variant.genotype.array())
+                        if variant.genotype is None:
+                            val = None
+                        else:
+                            val = variant.genotype.array()
+                        tcw.append("FORMAT/GT", val)
                     for field in format_fields:
                         val = variant.format(field.name)
                         tcw.append(field.full_name, val)
+
                     # Note: an issue with updating the progress per variant here like
                     # this is that we get a significant pause at the end of the counter
                     # while all the "small" fields get flushed. Possibly not much to be