"""Redirecting writing If using a library that can print messages to the console, editing the library by replacing `print()` with `tqdm.write()` may not be desirable. In that case, redirecting `sys.stdout` to `tqdm.write()` is an option. To redirect `sys.stdout`, create a file-like class that will write any input string to `tqdm.write()`, and supply the arguments `file=sys.stdout, dynamic_ncols=True`. A reusable canonical example is given below: """ from __future__ import print_function from time import sleep import contextlib import sys from tqdm import tqdm class DummyTqdmFile(object): """Dummy file-like that will write to tqdm""" file = None def __init__(self, file): self.file = file def write(self, x): # Avoid print() second call (useless \n) if len(x.rstrip()) > 0: tqdm.write(x, file=self.file) def flush(self): return getattr(self.file, "flush", lambda: None)() @contextlib.contextmanager def std_out_err_redirect_tqdm(): orig_out_err = sys.stdout, sys.stderr try: # sys.stdout = sys.stderr = DummyTqdmFile(orig_out_err[0]) sys.stdout, sys.stderr = map(DummyTqdmFile, orig_out_err) yield orig_out_err[0] # Relay exceptions except Exception as exc: raise exc # Always restore sys.stdout/err if necessary finally: sys.stdout, sys.stderr = orig_out_err def some_fun(i): print("Fee, fi, fo,".split()[i]) # Redirect stdout to tqdm.write() with std_out_err_redirect_tqdm() as orig_stdout: # tqdm needs the original stdout # and dynamic_ncols=True to autodetect console width for i in tqdm(range(3), file=orig_stdout, dynamic_ncols=True): # order of the following two lines should not matter some_fun(i) sleep(.5) # After the `with`, printing is restored print("Done!")