#298: Fancy Progress Bars With Alive-Progress
Tqdm from last week's post is for me the go-to helper when I need a progress bar. However, sometimes we need something especially fancy and for that purpose it is good to know about alive-progress.
Tqdm from last week's post is for me the go-to helper when I need a progress bar. However, sometimes we need something especially fancy and for that purpose it is good to know about alive-progress.
Since we used progressbar2 in Python Friday #71 a lot changed and even with basic things like a progress bar we can find many new libraries. Some already faded away, while others give us new and helpful features. In this post we explore the tqdm library that is a quick and easy replacement for all the places we used progressbar2.
Your terminal applications do not need to have a boring output. Today we take a look at how we can create nice looking tables without much effort.
Python is a great fit for maintenance tools. But when they run for a few minutes without any info to the user, one does not know it they are still doing their job or if they stopped. Let us look on a simple way to make your scripts more user friendly.