frogress 0.9.1

frogress is simple progress tool

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frogress is small progress indication tool to be used for fast prototyping. Why frogress anyway? Because it’s a bar (most of the time) and it jumps on your terminal, that’s why!

• Does NOT break your workflow (in most cases there is no need to call progress bar to render itself)

• It can guess if you iterate over a list (or similar iterable) …

• or if iterate over a file …

• or if iterate over generator - provided you know it’s total length …

• or not! (no eta, no total steps, no percentage and indicator instead of a bar but it works!)

• And you can easily teach it how to show progress of fat, gzipped xml file when using lxml to parse it

• Supports Python 2.6+, Python 3, PyPY

• Fully tested

Iteration examples

Iterate over a list

>>> import frogress
>>> items = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
>>> for item in frogress.bar(items):
...     pass # do something with item

[##........] Step 2/5 |  20.0% | Time: 0.1s | ETA: 0.5s

Iterate over a file

>>> import frogress
>>> for line in frogress.bar(open('/path/to/file', steps_label='Progress')):
...     pass # do something cruel with a line

[###.......] Progress: 3.2MB / 12.8MB |  25.0% | Time: 14min3s | ETA: 19min52s

Iterate over generator

>>> import frogress
>>> count = 100
>>> items = range(count)
>>> for item in frogress.bar(items, steps=count):
...     pass # do something with item

[#########.] Step 86/100 |  86.0% | Time: 1.2s | ETA: 7.3s

Iterate over a generator with unknown total number of steps

>>> import frogress
>>> def counter():
...     num = 1
...     while True:
...         yield num
...         num += 1
...
>>> items = counter()
>>> for item in frogress.bar(items):
...     pass # do something with item

[........#.] Step: 1410 | Time: 2min14s
[.........#] Step: 1411 | Time: 2min15s
[........#.] Step: 1412 | Time: 2min16s
[.......#..] Step: 1413 | Time: 2min17s

Iterate over gzipped xml file using lxml

The only problem with how to present a progress of file that’s being processed is the source from which frogress should extract progress information. We can try to do this simple way (without knowledge of how much of the file is already processed) or give frogress a source.

Simple way

>>> import frogress
>>> import gzip
>>> from lxml.etree import iterparse
>>> stream = gzip.open('my-fat.xml.gz')
>>> context = iterparse(stream)
>>> for action, element in frogress.bar(context):
...     pass # do something with element
...     element.clear() # don't forget about the memory!

[...#......] Progress: 41923 | Time: 1h42min

This is perfectly fine: we passed an iterable that doesn’t provide information on how many total items there is to process - so we have an bar activity indicator, no total steps at the progress and no ETA.

However, there is clearly a way of retrieving this information - after all this is only a file that’s being processed. And that file should be passed as source argument to the frogress.bar function.

Pass source

>>> import frogress
>>> import gzip
>>> from lxml.etree import iterparse
>>> stream = gzip.open('my-fat.xml.gz')
>>> context = iterparse(stream)
>>> for action, element in frogress.bar(context, source=stream.myfileobj):
...     pass # do something with element
...     element.clear() # don't forget about the memory!

[#####.....] Progress: 73.5MB / 156.4MB |  47.3% | Time: 1h42min | ETA: 1h53min

Just remember to pass file that is actually processed, not a wrapper! Standard file would be passed directly, however in example, gzip module wraps stream it is working on and it’s available as attribute myfileobj. On the other hand bz2 module doesn’t wrap streams. And so on. frogress can guess if a stream is file like object, however passing proper source is responsibility of the user.

Progress bar class API

Most of the time you won’t need to call those API directly - frogress.bar function should work for majority of the use cases. If, however, you feel like you need to make some customization, here we present some examples:

>>> import frogress
>>> items = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
>>> progressbar = frogress.Bar(items)
>>> progressbar.step
0
>>> progressbar.started # it's still None
>>> progressbar.finished # here too
>>> for item in progressbar:
...     pass # process the item (it will draw progressbar during iteration)
>>> progressbar.step
5
>>> progressbar.widgets
[<BarWidget>, <ProgressWidget>, <PercentageWidget>, <EtaWidget>, <TimeWidget>]
>>> len(progressbar)
5
>>> progressbar.output
<open file '<stderr>', mode 'w' at 0x103df61e0>
>>> progressbar.started
datetime.datetime(2013, 5, 12, 22, 2, 26, 752454)
>>> progressbar.finished
datetime.datetime(2013, 5, 12, 22, 2, 26, 792901)

Tips & Tricks

How to change label of the progress widget

>>> import frogress
>>> items = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
>>> widgets = [frogress.BarWidget, frogress.ProgressWidget('Items: '), frogress.TimerWidget]
>>> for item in frogress.bar(items, widgets=widgets):
>>>     pass