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Python Progress Bar
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:date: 2011-12-21 03:52
:author: tyrel
:category: Tech
:tags: Python
:slug: python-progress-bar
:status: published
I was looking for a nice progress bar today at work to show progress rather than just printing "\ **Waiting 30 seconds…**\ " and having the script do nothing, I wanted to have a progress bar show.
I found a progress bar from `Corey Goldberg <http://code.google.com/p/corey-projects/source/browse/trunk/python2/progress_bar.py>`__
I did make a couple changes, and have uploaded my changes to my GitHub account.
newPythonProgressBar [deadlink]
To use this progressbar, it is very easy.
.. code-block:: python
# To Setup
from progress_bar import ProgressBar
import sys
import time
def updateBar(step):
p.update_time(step)
sys.stdout.write("%s\r" % p)
sys.stdout.flush()
#
# to call
#
wait_time = 100 # seconds
p = ProgressBar(wait_time)
p.empty_char = "."
p.unit = "^"
for step in range(wait_time+1):
updateBar(step)
time.sleep(1)
It will look like this when you use it
``[###...............7%..................] 7^/100^``