You know those scripts you have where you do a print "still going..." in that giant mess of a for loop you call your __main__? Yeah well instead of doing that, why don't you step up your game and start using progressbar?
progressbar does pretty much exactly what you think it does...makes progress bars. And while this isn't exactly a data science specific activity, it does put a nice touch on those extra long running scripts.
Alas, as another GoogleCode outcast, it's not getting much love (the docs have 2 spaces for indents...2!!!). Do what's right and give it a good ole pip install.
from progressbar import ProgressBar
import time
pbar = ProgressBar(maxval=10)
for i in range(1, 11:disappointed_face:
pbar.update(i)
time.sleep(1)
pbar.finish()
# 60% |######################################################## |
So while you're making your logs have nice progress bars, why not also make them colorful! It can actually be helpful for reminding yourself when things are going horribly wrong.
colorama is super easy to use. Just pop it into your scripts and add any text you want to print to a color:
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