Double Progress Bar in Python

Question

Is there a way to create a double progress bar in Python? I want to run two loops inside each other. For each loop I want to have a progress bar. My program looks like:

import time
for i1 in range(5):
    for i2 in range(300):
        # do something, e.g. sleep
        time.sleep(0.01)
        # update upper progress bar
    # update lower progress bar

The output somewhere in the middle should look something like

50%|############################                                  |ETA: 0:00:02
80%|##################################################            |ETA: 0:00:04

The already existing really cool progressbar module doesn't seem to support that.

Answer 1

Use the nested progress bars feature of tqdm, an extremely low overhead, very customisable progress bar library:

$ pip install -U tqdm

Then:

from tqdm import tqdm
# from tqdm.auto import tqdm  # notebook compatible
import time
for i1 in tqdm(range(5)):
    for i2 in tqdm(range(300)):
        # do something, e.g. sleep
        time.sleep(0.01)

You can also use from tqdm import trange and then replace tqdm(range(...)) with trange(...). You can also get it working in a notebook.