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Progress Bar 4.6.0 documentation
Progress Bar 4.6.0 documentation

Documentation

  • Installation
  • Tutorial
    • Step 1: Wrap a loop with progressbar
    • Step 2: Update a ProgressBar explicitly
    • Step 3: Give the bar a max_value
    • Step 4: Choose your own widgets
    • Step 5: Print safely with redirect_stdout
  • How-to guides
    • Wrap an iterable without managing the bar yourself
    • Print while a bar is running
    • Send logging output above a running bar
    • Print one line per update instead of overwriting
    • Color a bar, solid or gradient
    • Write a custom widget
    • Show a custom value next to the bar
    • Put live values in the prefix or suffix
    • Switch from tqdm without renaming your keywords
    • Report a transfer’s size and speed
    • Show progress when the total isn’t known
    • Track several jobs at once with MultiBar
    • Stack independent bars without MultiBar
    • Run a batch in parallel with progress
  • Widget reference
    • AbsoluteETA
    • AdaptiveETA
    • AdaptiveTransferSpeed
    • AnimatedMarker
    • Bar
    • BouncingBar
    • Counter
    • CurrentTime
    • DataSize
    • DynamicMessage
    • ETA
    • FileTransferSpeed
    • FormatCustomText
    • FormatLabel
    • FormatLabelBar
    • GranularBar
    • JobStatusBar
    • MultiProgressBar
    • MultiRangeBar
    • Percentage
    • PercentageLabelBar
    • Postfix
    • ReverseBar
    • RotatingMarker
    • SimpleProgress
    • SmoothingETA
    • Timer
    • UnitProgress
    • Variable
  • Reference
    • ProgressBar
    • MultiBar
    • Parallel execution
    • progressbar CLI
    • Full module autodoc
      • progressbar.terminal package
        • progressbar.terminal.base module
        • progressbar.terminal.colors module
        • progressbar.terminal.stream module
      • progressbar.algorithms module
      • progressbar.bar module
      • progressbar.base module
      • progressbar.env module
      • progressbar.fast module
      • progressbar.multi module
      • progressbar.shortcuts module
      • progressbar.utils module
      • progressbar.widgets module
  • Explanation
    • Rendering and the update gate
    • Terminal detection
    • Performance and the fast path
    • Backwards compatibility

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Explanation¶

Background on how the library works and why it is built this way.

  • Rendering and the update gate
  • Terminal detection
  • Performance and the fast path
  • Backwards compatibility
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