Replace console output in Python

A more elegant solution could be:

def progress_bar(current, total, bar_length=20):
    fraction = current / total

    arrow = int(fraction * bar_length - 1) * '-' + '>'
    padding = int(bar_length - len(arrow)) * ' '

    ending = '\n' if current == total else '\r'

    print(f'Progress: [{arrow}{padding}] {int(fraction*100)}%', end=ending)

Call this function with current and total:

progress_bar(69, 100)

The result should be

Progress: [------------->      ] 69%

Note:

• For Python 3.6 and below
• For Python 2.x.

An easy solution is just writing "\r" before the string and not adding a newline; if the string never gets shorter this is sufficient...

sys.stdout.write("\rDoing thing %i" % i)
sys.stdout.flush()

Slightly more sophisticated is a progress bar... this is something I am using:

def start_progress(title):
    global progress_x
    sys.stdout.write(title + ": [" + "-"*40 + "]" + chr(8)*41)
    sys.stdout.flush()
    progress_x = 0

def progress(x):
    global progress_x
    x = int(x * 40 // 100)
    sys.stdout.write("#" * (x - progress_x))
    sys.stdout.flush()
    progress_x = x

def end_progress():
    sys.stdout.write("#" * (40 - progress_x) + "]\n")
    sys.stdout.flush()

You call start_progress passing the description of the operation, then progress(x) where x is the percentage and finally end_progress()