Text progress bar in terminal with block characters

I realize I'm late to the game, but here's a slightly Yum-style (Red Hat) one I wrote (not going for 100% accuracy here, but if you're using a progress bar for that level of accuracy, then you're WRONG anyway):

import sys

def cli_progress_test(end_val, bar_length=20):
    for i in xrange(0, end_val):
        percent = float(i) / end_val
        hashes = '#' * int(round(percent * bar_length))
        spaces = ' ' * (bar_length - len(hashes))
        sys.stdout.write("\rPercent: [{0}] {1}%".format(hashes + spaces, int(round(percent * 100))))
        sys.stdout.flush()

Should produce something looking like this:

Percent: [##############      ] 69%

... where the brackets stay stationary and only the hashes increase.

This might work better as a decorator. For another day...

Check this library: clint

it has a lot of features including a progress bar:

from time import sleep  
from random import random  
from clint.textui import progress  
if __name__ == '__main__':
    for i in progress.bar(range(100)):
        sleep(random() * 0.2)

    for i in progress.dots(range(100)):
        sleep(random() * 0.2)

this link provides a quick overview of its features

Here's a nice example of a progressbar written in Python: http://nadiana.com/animated-terminal-progress-bar-in-python

But if you want to write it yourself. You could use the curses module to make things easier :)

[edit] Perhaps easier is not the word for curses. But if you want to create a full-blown cui than curses takes care of a lot of stuff for you.

[edit] Since the old link is dead I have put up my own version of a Python Progressbar, get it here: https://github.com/WoLpH/python-progressbar