progress_bar.md

Creating a progress bar

For this progress bar I generally use the package called progess

This is how I have generally set it up

def progress_bar():
    with Bar(f"Uploading!", fill="🟪", max=60, suffix='%(percent)d%%') as bar:
        for _ in range(60):
            time.sleep(1)
            bar.next()

A few things I learnt here was the use of max, range() and sleep(). My thought process behind this was that I need the progress bar to last 1 minute, as I have used this to prevent an overload of an API.

So I used max and gave it an int of 60 with a range(60) then gave the for loop a time.sleep(1) of one 1 second. The loop will last for 60 seconds, due to the range(60), the max value allows the suffix to display the correct percentage.

I have used the above progress bar in the following manner:

try:
    for i, v in enumerate(x):
        r = requests.post('https://httpbin.org/post', json=json.dumps(v))
        r.raise_for_status()

        if r.status_code == requests.codes.ok:
            progress_bar()
            print(f'List #{i + 1} uploaded 👍')

except requests.exceptions.HTTPError as err:
    raise SystemExit(err)

Using the for loop here, we POST to an API and if successful it triggers progress_bar() for 60s. Once complete the enumerate() for loop POSTs to the API again, then triggers the progress bar once more.

So would kind of look like this. Depending what the lenght of x was. BTW I was passing a list into the value of x