Multiprocessing : use tqdm to display a progress bar

Question

Use imap instead of map, which returns an iterator of processed values.

from multiprocessing import Pool
import tqdm
import time

def _foo(my_number):
   square = my_number * my_number
   time.sleep(1)
   return square 

if __name__ == '__main__':
   with Pool(2) as p:
      r = list(tqdm.tqdm(p.imap(_foo, range(30)), total=30))

Sorry for being late but if all you need is a concurrent map, I added this functionality in tqdm>=4.42.0:

from tqdm.contrib.concurrent import process_map  # or thread_map
import time

def _foo(my_number):
   square = my_number * my_number
   time.sleep(1)
   return square 

if __name__ == '__main__':
   r = process_map(_foo, range(0, 30), max_workers=2)

References: https://tqdm.github.io/docs/contrib.concurrent/ and https://github.com/tqdm/tqdm/blob/master/examples/parallel_bars.py

It supports max_workers and chunksize and you can also easily switch from process_map to thread_map.

Solution Found : Be careful! Due to multiprocessing, estimation time (iteration per loop, total time, etc.) could be unstable, but the progress bar works perfectly.

Note: Context manager for Pool is only available from Python version 3.3

from multiprocessing import Pool
import time
from tqdm import *

def _foo(my_number):
   square = my_number * my_number
   time.sleep(1)
   return square 

if __name__ == '__main__':
    with Pool(processes=2) as p:
        max_ = 30
        with tqdm(total=max_) as pbar:
            for i, _ in enumerate(p.imap_unordered(_foo, range(0, max_))):
                pbar.update()

You can use p_tqdm instead.

https://github.com/swansonk14/p_tqdm

from p_tqdm import p_map
import time

def _foo(my_number):
   square = my_number * my_number
   time.sleep(1)
   return square 

if __name__ == '__main__':
   r = p_map(_foo, list(range(0, 30)))

based on the answer of Xavi Martínez I wrote the function imap_unordered_bar. It can be used in the same way as imap_unordered with the only difference that a processing bar is shown.

from multiprocessing import Pool
import time
from tqdm import *

def imap_unordered_bar(func, args, n_processes = 2):
    p = Pool(n_processes)
    res_list = []
    with tqdm(total = len(args)) as pbar:
        for i, res in tqdm(enumerate(p.imap_unordered(func, args))):
            pbar.update()
            res_list.append(res)
    pbar.close()
    p.close()
    p.join()
    return res_list

def _foo(my_number):
    square = my_number * my_number
    time.sleep(1)
    return square 

if __name__ == '__main__':
    result = imap_unordered_bar(_foo, range(5))

import multiprocessing as mp
import tqdm


iterable = ... 
num_cpu = mp.cpu_count() - 2 # dont use all cpus.


def func():
    # your logic
    ...


if __name__ == '__main__':
    with mp.Pool(num_cpu) as p:
        list(tqdm.tqdm(p.imap(func, iterable), total=len(iterable)))

For progress bar with apply_async, we can use following code as suggested in:

https://github.com/tqdm/tqdm/issues/484

import time
import random
from multiprocessing import Pool
from tqdm import tqdm

def myfunc(a):
    time.sleep(random.random())
    return a ** 2

pool = Pool(2)
pbar = tqdm(total=100)

def update(*a):
    pbar.update()

for i in range(pbar.total):
    pool.apply_async(myfunc, args=(i,), callback=update)
pool.close()
pool.join()