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A library for tracking, computing, and formatting time estimates.

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ETA Time

A library for tracking, computing, and formatting time estimates.

Basic Usage

import time, random
from etatime.eta import eta_calculator


# Just a placeholder function that takes a random amount of time
def process_item(item):
    time.sleep(random.random() * 20)


for item, eta in eta_calculator(range(10)):  # Creates a new Eta object for each item
    print(eta)  # Print the current progress stats
    process_item(item)  # Do your processing here

If you want to access the eta stats outside the loop, you can use this pattern to do so:

eta = None  # Initialize the eta variable here, so we can use it outside the loop
for item, eta in eta_calculator(range(10)):
    print(eta)
    process_item(item)
eta.complete()  # Update the last Eta object to completed, using now as the end time

print(f"Done processing {eta.total_items} items in {eta.string(eta.StringField.TIME_TAKEN)}!\n")

Here is an example of the sort of output this produces:

0.00%
10.00% | R: 0:01:33 | E: 12:25:16 AM
20.00% | R: 0:01:56 | E: 12:25:57 AM
30.00% | R: 0:01:13 | E: 12:25:16 AM
40.00% | R: 0:00:55 | E: 12:25:03 AM
50.00% | R: 0:00:55 | E: 12:25:22 AM
60.00% | R: 0:00:43 | E: 12:25:18 AM
70.00% | R: 0:00:32 | E: 12:25:19 AM
80.00% | R: 0:00:19 | E: 12:25:09 AM
90.00% | R: 0:00:09 | E: 12:25:00 AM
Done processing 10 items in 0:01:33!

You can get more verbose information by replacing the for loop with this:

for item, eta in eta_calculator(range(10), verbose=True):

Here is an example of the verbose output:

0.00% (0/10)
10.00% (1/10) | Time remaining: 1 minute and 54 seconds | ETA: 12:27:33 AM US Mountain Standard Time
20.00% (2/10) | Time remaining: 1 minute and 33 seconds | ETA: 12:27:22 AM US Mountain Standard Time
30.00% (3/10) | Time remaining: 1 minute and 7 seconds | ETA: 12:27:02 AM US Mountain Standard Time
40.00% (4/10) | Time remaining: 50 seconds | ETA: 12:26:49 AM US Mountain Standard Time
50.00% (5/10) | Time remaining: 51 seconds | ETA: 12:27:08 AM US Mountain Standard Time
60.00% (6/10) | Time remaining: 41 seconds | ETA: 12:27:09 AM US Mountain Standard Time
70.00% (7/10) | Time remaining: 28 seconds | ETA: 12:27:01 AM US Mountain Standard Time
80.00% (8/10) | Time remaining: 20 seconds | ETA: 12:27:05 AM US Mountain Standard Time
90.00% (9/10) | Time remaining: 10 seconds | ETA: 12:27:07 AM US Mountain Standard Time
Done processing 10 items in 1 minute and 51 seconds!

You can also build a custom message piece-by-piece, like so:

print(f"Processing item: '{item}'")
print(f"  Completed: {eta.string(eta.Value.COMPLETION)}")
print(f"  Time taken: {eta.string(eta.Value.TIME_TAKEN)}")
print(f"  Time remaining: {eta.string(eta.Value.TIME_REMAINING)}")
print(f"  ETA: {eta.string(eta.Value.ETA)}")

This produces the following output:

Processing item: '0'
  Completed: 0.00% (0/10)
  Time taken: 0 seconds
  Time remaining: not enough data
  ETA: not enough data
Processing item: '1'
  Completed: 10.00% (1/10)
  Time taken: 11 seconds
  Time remaining: 1 minute and 38 seconds
  ETA: 12:29:31 AM US Mountain Standard Time
Processing item: '2'
  Completed: 20.00% (2/10)
  Time taken: 29 seconds
  Time remaining: 1 minute and 55 seconds
  ETA: 12:30:05 AM US Mountain Standard Time
Processing item: '3'
  Completed: 30.00% (3/10)
  Time taken: 47 seconds
  Time remaining: 1 minute and 50 seconds
  ETA: 12:30:18 AM US Mountain Standard Time
Processing item: '4'
  Completed: 40.00% (4/10)
  Time taken: 54 seconds
  Time remaining: 1 minute and 21 seconds
  ETA: 12:29:57 AM US Mountain Standard Time
Processing item: '5'
  Completed: 50.00% (5/10)
  Time taken: 56 seconds
  Time remaining: 56 seconds
  ETA: 12:29:33 AM US Mountain Standard Time
Processing item: '6'
  Completed: 60.00% (6/10)
  Time taken: 1 minute and 3 seconds
  Time remaining: 42 seconds
  ETA: 12:29:27 AM US Mountain Standard Time
Processing item: '7'
  Completed: 70.00% (7/10)
  Time taken: 1 minute and 22 seconds
  Time remaining: 35 seconds
  ETA: 12:29:38 AM US Mountain Standard Time
Processing item: '8'
  Completed: 80.00% (8/10)
  Time taken: 1 minute and 28 seconds
  Time remaining: 22 seconds
  ETA: 12:29:32 AM US Mountain Standard Time
Processing item: '9'
  Completed: 90.00% (9/10)
  Time taken: 1 minute and 48 seconds
  Time remaining: 12 seconds
  ETA: 12:29:41 AM US Mountain Standard Time
Done processing 10 items in 1 minute and 57 seconds!

You can also make a progress bar similar to how you would with tqdm:

import time, random
from etatime.eta import eta_bar


# Just a placeholder function that takes a random amount of time
def process_item(item):
    time.sleep(random.random() * 20)


for item in eta_bar(range(10), verbose=True, width=40):  # Updates the progress bar each loop
    process_item(item)  # Do your processing here

Which gives the following output (on a single line):

                                         0.00% (0/10)
████                                     10.00% (1/10) | Time remaining: 33 seconds | ETA: 10:20:59 AM US Mountain Standard Time
████████▏                                20.00% (2/10) | Time remaining: 34 seconds | ETA: 10:21:06 AM US Mountain Standard Time
████████████▍                            30.00% (3/10) | Time remaining: 43 seconds | ETA: 10:21:25 AM US Mountain Standard Time
████████████████▌                        40.00% (4/10) | Time remaining: 54 seconds | ETA: 10:21:54 AM US Mountain Standard Time
████████████████████▋                    50.00% (5/10) | Time remaining: 42 seconds | ETA: 10:21:48 AM US Mountain Standard Time
████████████████████████▋                60.00% (6/10) | Time remaining: 29 seconds | ETA: 10:21:37 AM US Mountain Standard Time
████████████████████████████▊            70.00% (7/10) | Time remaining: 26 seconds | ETA: 10:21:50 AM US Mountain Standard Time
████████████████████████████████▉        80.00% (8/10) | Time remaining: 15 seconds | ETA: 10:21:42 AM US Mountain Standard Time
█████████████████████████████████████    90.00% (9/10) | Time remaining: 7 seconds | ETA: 10:21:40 AM US Mountain Standard Time
████████████████████████████████████████  100.00% (10/10) | Time taken: 1 minute and 12 seconds | Completion time: 10:20:23 AM US Mountain Standard Time

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