[FIXED] tqdm in Jupyter Notebook prints new progress bars repeatedly

Issue

I am using tqdm to print progress in a script I'm running in a Jupyter notebook. I am printing all messages to the console via tqdm.write(). However, this still gives me a skewed output like so:

That is, each time a new line has to be printed, a new progress bar is printed on the next line. This does not happen when I run the script via terminal. How can I solve this?

Solution

Try using tqdm.notebook.tqdm instead of tqdm, as outlined here.

This could be as simple as changing your import to:

from tqdm.notebook import tqdm

Good luck!

EDIT: After testing, it seems that tqdm actually works fine in 'text mode' in Jupyter notebook. It's hard to tell because you haven't provided a minimal example, but it looks like your problem is caused by a print statement in each iteration. The print statement is outputting a number (~0.89) in between each status bar update, which is messing up the output. Try removing the print statement.

Answered By - oscarbranson