Python how to make simple animated loading while process is running

Question

This is pretty much what I have right now:

import time
import sys

done = \'false\'
#here is the animation
def animate():
    while done == \'false\':
               


        

Answer 1

import sys, time, threading

def your_function_name() :
    # do something here

def loadingAnimation(process) :
    while process.isAlive() :
        chars = "/—\|" 
        for char in chars:
            sys.stdout.write('\r'+'loading '+char)
            time.sleep(.1)
            sys.stdout.flush()

loading_process = threading.Thread(target=your_function_name)
loading_process.start()
animated_loading(loading_process)
loading_process.join()