New features get added and these posts are a nice reminder to check the docs on a tool I literally never need to do that for because it's so habitual to wrap any long-running iterable inside of a `tqdm()`.

TIL tqdm now has a dead simple telegram hook https://tqdm.github.io/docs/contrib.telegram/

It never occurred to me that chat posts could be quickly edited to make them dynamic. Maybe other chat-bots do that too. Its definitely a cool add-on.

Yeah, I've been using it for a while, but with the barrage of memes and politics on the internet nobody finds out about the good stuff until years later.

tqdm is indeed 8 years old, but it's been popping up everywhere for only a couple of years now. Hence the "gaining traction".

I used an early version of this in 2009.

Ive used tqdm 20 years ago

I've used tqdm 30 years ago!

Although the first release on pypi was in 2013: https://pypi.org/project/tqdm/#history

Way before @noamraph put it up on in pypi it was internally available in our company. To my knowledge he didn't yet make it 30 years ago, but if he did then probably at least not for Python!

Wise of you...

OP didn't take issue with "gaining traction" and clearly was responding to "new tools". Tqdm isn't a new tool.

It’s been making some tqdm lately