[rripken]

I use tqdm (with argparse) in a pyinstaller packaged exe. 5-stars - Its great! I call the exe from Java to do some ML and forward the tqdm progress and status messages to a Swing progress bar. It makes the user experience seamless. Depending on the task and the user's settings the tool usually takes about 7-8 seconds(including the PyInstaller extract) but it can also take up to a minute. When its 7-8 seconds the progress messages fly by and the tool feels snappy. When its 50-60 seconds the users are very grateful for the progress bar. Meanwhile I can develop and test the tool from the command-line and see progress info and when I want to run the ML code in Jupyter notebooks the progress bars can still be made to work.