Mar 24

How to write a download progress indicator in Python?

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import urllib, sys

import tarfile

 

rem_file = 'http://blah.blah.com/dir/filename.tar.gz'

loc_file = 'filename.tar.gz'

 

def dlProgress(count, blockSize, totalSize):

    percent = int(count*blockSize*100/totalSize)

    sys.stdout.write("\r" + rem_file + "...%d%%" % percent)

    sys.stdout.flush()

 

tpl = urllib.urlretrieve(rem_file, loc_file, reporthook=dlProgress)

tar = tarfile.open(loc_file)

tar.extractall()

tar.close()