On 09/18/2014 08:26 PM, Paul Moore wrote:
Every time an issue like this comes up, I know that I'm looking to do "pip install XXX". It's working out what XXX is that's the problem.
So I go and ask Google. A quick check on the progress bar case gets me to a StackOverflow article that offers me a lot of "write it yourself" solutions, and pointers to a couple of libraries. Further down there are a few pointers to python-progressbar, which was mentioned in the StackOverflow article, which in turn leads me to the PyPI page for it. The latest version (2.3-dev) is not hosted on PyPI, so I hit all the fun of --allow-external.
I'd recommend searching PyPI itself. This: https://pypi.python.org/pypi?%3Aaction=search&term=progress+bar gives about 20 top results that look highly relevant. A Google search with "site:pypi.python.org progress bar" also looks like it could have given you what you wanted.
Ironically, "pip install tqdm" gives me what I want instantly. But it never came up via Google.
It also doesn't come up in the PyPI search, because its PyPI page isn't exactly very full of information :) cheers, Georg