The Python Papers

The Python Papers

Creating Progress Bars in Your Terminal with Python and Textual

Mike Driscoll's avatar
Mike Driscoll
Aug 06, 2024
∙ Paid
12
Share

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…

Keep reading with a 7-day free trial

Subscribe to The Python Papers to keep reading this post and get 7 days of free access to the full post archives.

Already a paid subscriber? Sign in
© 2025 Mike Driscoll
Privacy ∙ Terms ∙ Collection notice
Start writingGet the app
Substack is the home for great culture