From 82a11b9960489143225f161a3d7f34bea4937635 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Will McGugan <willmcgugan@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 15 Mar 2020 15:45:45 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] replace cwwidth

---
 .gitignore       | 1 +
 rich/progress.py | 9 +++++++++
 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+)

diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index df23e0ae..acbe050d 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
 mypy_report
 docs/build
 docs/source/_build
+tools/*.txt
 
 # Byte-compiled / optimized / DLL files
 __pycache__/
diff --git a/rich/progress.py b/rich/progress.py
index 5d0c9069..1fd95db7 100644
--- a/rich/progress.py
+++ b/rich/progress.py
@@ -412,6 +412,15 @@ class Progress:
             if refresh:
                 self.refresh()
 
+    def advance(self, task_id: TaskID, advance: float = 1) -> None:
+        """Advance task by a number of steps.
+        
+        Args:
+            task_id (TaskID): ID of task.
+            advance (float): Number of steps to advance. Default is 1.
+        """
+        self.update(task_id, advance=advance)
+
     def refresh(self) -> None:
         """Refresh (render) the progress information."""
         with self._lock: