Awesome command-line animated progress bar written in python

progress_bar.py

#!/usr/bin/env python
#
#  Corey Goldberg - 2010
#  ascii command-line progress bar with percentage and elapsed time display
# 



import sys
import time



class ProgressBar:
    def __init__(self, duration):
        self.duration = duration
        self.prog_bar = '[]'
        self.fill_char = '#'
        self.width = 40
        self.__update_amount(0)

    def animate(self):
        for i in range(self.duration):
            if sys.platform.lower().startswith('win'):
                print self, '\r',
            else:
                print self, chr(27) + '[A'
            self.update_time(i + 1)
            time.sleep(1) 
        print self
        
    def update_time(self, elapsed_secs):
        self.__update_amount((elapsed_secs / float(self.duration)) * 100.0)
#        self.prog_bar += '  %ds/%ss' % (elapsed_secs, self.duration)
        self.prog_bar += '  %d/%s' % (elapsed_secs, self.duration)
        
    def __update_amount(self, new_amount):
        percent_done = int(round((new_amount / 100.0) * 100.0))
        all_full = self.width - 2
        num_hashes = int(round((percent_done / 100.0) * all_full))
        self.prog_bar = '[' + self.fill_char * num_hashes + ' ' * (all_full - num_hashes) + ']'
        pct_place = (len(self.prog_bar) / 2) - len(str(percent_done))
        pct_string = '%d%%' % percent_done
        self.prog_bar = self.prog_bar[0:pct_place] + \
            (pct_string + self.prog_bar[pct_place + len(pct_string):])
        
    def __str__(self):
        return str(self.prog_bar)
        
        


if __name__ == '__main__':
    """ example usage """   
    
    # print a static progress bar
    #  [##########       25%                  ]  15s/60s

    # p = ProgressBar(60)
    # p.update_time(15)
    # print 'static progress bar:'
    # print p
    
    
    # print a static progress bar
    #  [=================83%============      ]  25s/30s

    p = ProgressBar(30)
    p.fill_char = '='
    p.update_time(25)
    print 'static progress bar:'
    # print p
    p.animate()
    
    
    # print a dynamic updating progress bar on one line:
    #
    #  [################100%##################]  10s/10s
    #  done
    
    # secs = 10
    # p = ProgressBar(secs)
    # print 'dynamic updating progress bar:'
    # print 'please wait %d seconds...' % secs
    
    # spawn asych (threads/processes/etc) code here that runs for secs.
    # the call to .animate() blocks the main thread.
    
    # p.animate()
    
    print 'done'


"""
example output:


$ python progress_bar.py 

static progress bar:
[##########       25%                  ]  15s/60s

static progress bar:
[=================83%============      ]  25s/30s


dynamic updating progress bar:

please wait 10 seconds...

[################100%##################]  10s/10s
done

"""