is there an easy way to add a progress bar/counter to an existing script

[metulburr]

tkinter
https://riptutorial.com/tkinter/example/...rogressbar

console/terminal

import time, sys

if sys.version[0] == '2':
    range = xrange
    
def flush():
    if sys.version[0] == '2':
        sys.stdout.flush()


def progressbar_num():
    for num in range(101):
        time.sleep(.1)
        sys.stdout.write("\r{}%".format(num))    # or print >> sys.stdout, "\r%d%%" %i,
        flush()
    print('')

def progressbar_disp():
    display_char = '#'
    for num in range(101):
        time.sleep(.1)
        sys.stdout.write("\r[{0}] {1}%".format(int(num/3)*display_char, num))
        flush()
    print('')

def progressbar_disp_full():
    display_char = '#'
    incomplete_char = ' '
    for num in range(101):
        spacer = int(33-int(num/3)) * incomplete_char
        filler = int(num/3)*display_char
        time.sleep(.1)
        sys.stdout.write("\r[{0}{1}] {2}%".format(filler, spacer, num))
        flush()
    print('')
    
progressbar_num()
progressbar_disp()
progressbar_disp_full()

Whatever your current code is, you would increment the progressbar at the point at which it needs. I am not sure if your downloading, loading resources, etc.

This would be an example of downloading using a percentage progressbar

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from __future__ import division, absolute_import, print_function, unicode_literals

import sys
import os

if sys.version_info >= (3,):
    import urllib.request as urllib2
    import urllib.parse as urlparse
else:
    import urllib2
    import urlparse

def download_file(url, desc=None):
    u = urllib2.urlopen(url)

    scheme, netloc, path, query, fragment = urlparse.urlsplit(url)
    filename = os.path.basename(path)
    if not filename:
        filename = 'downloaded.file'
    if desc:
        filename = os.path.join(desc, filename)

    with open(filename, 'wb') as f:
        meta = u.info()
        meta_func = meta.getheaders if hasattr(meta, 'getheaders') else meta.get_all
        meta_length = meta_func("Content-Length")
        file_size = None
        if meta_length:
            file_size = int(meta_length[0])
        print("Downloading: {0} Bytes: {1}".format(filename, file_size))

        file_size_dl = 0
        block_sz = 8192
        while True:
            buffer = u.read(block_sz)
            if not buffer:
                break

            file_size_dl += len(buffer)
            f.write(buffer)

            status = "{0:16}".format(file_size_dl)
            if file_size:
                status += "   [{0:6.2f}%]".format(file_size_dl * 100 / file_size)
            status += chr(13)
            print(status, end="")
        print()

    return filename

url = 'https://www.python.org/ftp/python/3.5.2/Python-3.5.2.tar.xz'
url = 'ftp://speedtest:[email protected]/test100Mb.db'
download_file(url)