Tqdm

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A Fast, Extensible Progress Bar for Python and CLI

Example

• How to use tqdm - Python progress bar

from tqdm import tqdm
import time

text = ""
for char in tqdm(["a", "b", "c", "d"]):
    time.sleep(0.25)
    text = text + char

The output looks like this:

100%|██████████| 4/4 [00:01<00:00,  3.93it/s]

Command-line examples

time find . -name '*.py' -type f -exec cat \{} \; | tqdm | wc -l

Find *.py files. The overall percentage is not shown.

7z a -bd -r backup.7z docs/ | grep Compressing | tqdm --total $(find docs/ -type f | wc -l) --unit files >> backup.log

Compress with 7z. Adding the --total argument shows the overall percentage.

See also

• python

Favorite site

• Github - tqdm
• How to use tqdm - Python progress bar