A Simple Progress Bar

Little Python module for a nice textual progress bar, useful for console applications when you want to give your user a running percentage of some job done.

Bar can be arbitrarily long, and you can precede it with some text of your choosing.

Simply run the module (i.e., python ProgBar.py) to see it demonstrated.

Requirements

Python 3.x.

Usage

Just use carriage returns and flushes (i.e., end="\r" and flush=True) in your print() statements to keep writing on the same line:

#!/usr/bin/env python3
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

import ProgBar

thingsToDo = 42
for thingBeingDone in range(thingsToDo):
    progress = (thingBeingDone + 1) / thingsToDo
    # Bar will be 20 spaces long, and preceded by "progress: " (one space appended):
    print(ProgBar.ProgressBar(progress, "progress:", 20), end="\r", flush=True)