Quick Progress Bars in python using TQDM
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Quick Progress Bars in python using TQDM

Date: September 18, 2019

tqdm is one of my favorite general purpose utility libraries in python. It
allows me to see progress of multipart processes as they happen. I really like
this for when I am developing something that takes some amount of time and I am
unsure of performance. It allows me to be patient when the process is going
well and will finish in sufficient time, and allows me to 💥 kill it and find a
way to make it perform better if it will not finish in sufficient time.

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**Add a simple Progress bar!**
```python
from tqdm import tqdm
from time import sleep

for i in tqdm(range(10)):
 sleep(1)
```

**convenience**

TQDM also has a convenience function called trange that wraps the range function with a tqdm progress bar automatically.

```python
from tqdm import trange
from time import sleep

for i in trange(range(10)):
 sleep(1)
```

**notebook support**

There is also notebook support. If you are bouncing between ipython and jupyter I recomend importing from the auto module.

```python
from tqdm.auto import tqdm
from time import sleep

for i in tqdm(range(10)):
 sleep(1)
```

Autoreload in Ipython [1]

> If you are using notebooks you should enable ipython autoreload 👆

References:
[1]: /autoreload-ipython/