Python to print out status bar and percentage

Question

To implement a status bar like below:

[==========                ]  45%
[================          ]  60%
[==========================] 100%

Answer 1

Using @Mark-Rushakoff answer, I worked out a simpler approach, no need to call the sys library. It works with Python 3. Tested in Windows:

from time import sleep
for i in range(21):
    # the exact output you're looking for:
    print ("\r[%-20s] %d%%" % ('='*i, 5*i), end='')
    sleep(0.25)

Answer 2

You can use \r (carriage return). Demo:

import sys
total = 10000000
point = total / 100
increment = total / 20
for i in xrange(total):
    if(i % (5 * point) == 0):
        sys.stdout.write("\r[" + "=" * (i / increment) +  " " * ((total - i)/ increment) + "]" +  str(i / point) + "%")
        sys.stdout.flush()

Answer 3

As described in Mark Rushakoff's solution, you can output the carriage return character, sys.stdout.write('\r'), to reset the cursor to the beginning of the line. To generalize that solution, while also implementing Python 3's f-Strings, you could use

from time import sleep
import sys

n_bar = 50
iterable = range(33)  # for demo purposes
n_iter = len(iterable)
for i, item in enumerate(iterable):
    j = (i + 1) / n_iter

    sys.stdout.write('\r')
    sys.stdout.write(f"[{'=' * int(n_bar * j):{n_bar}s}] {int(100 * j)}%")
    sys.stdout.flush()

    sleep(0.05)  
    # do something with <item> here

Answer 4

Here is something I have made using the solution by @Mark-Rushakoff. To adaptively adjust to the terminal width.

from time import sleep
import os
import sys
from math import ceil

l = list(map(int,os.popen('stty size','r').read().split()))
col = l[1]
col = col - 6

for i in range(col):
    sys.stdout.write('\r')
    getStr = "[%s " % ('='*i)
    sys.stdout.write(getStr.ljust(col)+"]"+"%d%%" % (ceil((100/col)*i)))
    sys.stdout.flush()
    sleep(0.25)
print("")

Answer 5

For Python 3.6 the following works for me to update the output inline:

for current_epoch in range(10):
    for current_step) in range(100):
        print("Train epoch %s: Step %s" % (current_epoch, current_step), end="\r")
print()

Answer 6

based on the above answers and other similar questions about CLI progress bar, I think I got a general common answer to all of them. Check it at https://stackoverflow.com/a/15860757/2254146

Here is a copy of the function, but modified to fit your style:

import time, sys

# update_progress() : Displays or updates a console progress bar
## Accepts a float between 0 and 1. Any int will be converted to a float.
## A value under 0 represents a 'halt'.
## A value at 1 or bigger represents 100%
def update_progress(progress):
    barLength = 20 # Modify this to change the length of the progress bar
    status = ""
    if isinstance(progress, int):
        progress = float(progress)
    if not isinstance(progress, float):
        progress = 0
        status = "error: progress var must be float\r\n"
    if progress < 0:
        progress = 0
        status = "Halt...\r\n"
    if progress >= 1:
        progress = 1
        status = "Done...\r\n"
    block = int(round(barLength*progress))
    text = "\rPercent: [{0}] {1}% {2}".format( "="*block + " "*(barLength-block), progress*100, status)
    sys.stdout.write(text)
    sys.stdout.flush()

Looks like

Percent: [====================] 99.0%