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Creating Progress Bars in Your Terminal with Python and Textual

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Mike Driscoll
Aug 06, 2024
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The Textual package is a great way to create GUI-like applications with Python in your terminal. These are known as text-based user interfaces or TUIs. Textual has many different widgets built-in to the framework.

One of those widgets is the ProgressBar. If you need to show the progress of a download or long-running process, then you will probably want t…

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