[Tutor] Displaying Status on the Command Line
Cameron Simpson
cs at cskk.id.au
Wed Nov 7 17:20:48 EST 2018
On 07Nov2018 11:22, Chip Wachob <wachobc at gmail.com> wrote:
>I'm sure that this is simple and my searches have just not used the
>correct words.
>
>What I would like to do is display, on a single line, in the terminal
>/ command line a progress percentage, or, simply a sequence of - / -
>\, etc.. or even, accumulating period characters.
>
>What would the escape codes be, or is there a better way to handle this?
>
>Note that I need this to be platform agnostic.
I'e got a module 'cs.upd' on PyPI which does this. "pip install cs.upd"
to obtain it.
Typical usage:
import sys
import time
from cs.upd import Upd
upd = Upd(sys.stdout)
for percentage in range(1,100):
upd.out("Progress: %d%%", percentage)
if percentage % 10 == 0:
upd.nl("completed %d%%", percentage)
time.sleep(0.1)
upd.out("Complete!")
time.sleep(1.0)
That example is obviously contrived, and the sleeps are so you can see
it all happen. But you can slot this into simple terminal based
programmes to present dynamic progress.
Cheers,
Cameron Simpson <cs at cskk.id.au>
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