alive-progress is a progress bar, with real-time throughput, ETA, and very cool animations.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Live spinner that reacts to your actual processing speed, i.e., it dynamically gets faster or slower with your throughput, and clearly shows a lengthy task is in progress, i.e., did not crash even if taking too long (and your SSH connection did not freeze if remote).
- An efficient multithreaded bar that updates itself at a fraction of the actual processing speed to keep CPU usage low and avoid terminal spamming (1,000,000 iterations per second equates to roughly 60 updates per second), and you can also calibrate it to your liking.
- An accurate ETA (Expected Time of Arrival) with an intelligent Exponential Smoothing Algorithm that shows the time to completion, allowing you to plan your time and manage your workload more effectively.
- Automatic print and logging hooks that provide seamless and effortless integration with any code, even enriching these outputs with the current bar position when they occurred.
- Prints a nice final receipt when your processing ends, including the total items, the elapsed time, and the observed throughput.
- Detects under and overflows, enabling you to track hits, misses, or any desired counts, not necessarily the actually performed iterations.
- Suspend it – you can suspend your processing and get back to the Python prompt, adjust or fix some items, and then get back into the same processing as if it had never stopped.
Highly customizable, with a smorgasbord of ready-to-use spinner and bar styles, as well as several factories to easily create yours. There’s even a super powerful check() tool that helps you design your own animations.
Website: github.com/rsalmei/alive-progress
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Developer: Rogério Sampaio de Almeida
License: MIT License
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