Add Progress Bars To Your Python Loops

🦖 This post was published in 2013 and is most likely outdated.

Instead of printing out indices or other info at each iteration of your Python loops to see the progress, you can easily add a progress bar.

For each of your loop

for x in my_list:
  # do stuff

wrap the object on which you iterate with pbar().

from progressbar import ProgressBar
pbar = ProgressBar()

for x in pbar(my_list):
  # do stuff

and it will display a progress that automatically updates itself after each iteration of the loop.

28% |######################                                    |

It’s great if your run long script and you want to have an idea of how long it is going to run.

Installation

pip install progressbar

Customize it

There are also a ton of customization options available. Here is an example of a progress bar that displays the number of iterations done over the total number of iterations, an estimation of the remaining running time (!) and the “loop speed”, here 1.18 iterations per seconds.

2401 of 1958 [------------                       ] ETA:  0:27:27 (at  1.18  it/s)

See the package progressbar on Google code. Run the examples.py to have a demo of all the crazy stuff the package allow.

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