---
title: "Quick Progress Bars in python using TQDM"
description: "Quick Progress Bars in python using TQDM"
date: 2019-09-18
published: true
tags:
  - python
template: blog-post
---


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.

![](/tqdm2.gif)

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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)
```

<a href="/autoreload-ipython/" class="wikilink" data-title="Autoreload in Ipython" data-description="Autoreload in python" data-date="2019-09-08">Autoreload in Ipython</a>

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