Python: How to display the position of a counter in a variable range as a text bar (similar to the progress bar)?

Question

I'm trying to have a dynamic display for a continuously changing positive number in a range that is also changing. For concrete example, lets imagine its representing the dynamic price of a stock where the range is its current daily range.

Say the symbol is X, which opened at $100 today, went unto $125 intra-day and is now trading at $112.5. So ideally I'd like to display it as a dynamic progress bar:

X [####   ] 112.5 [100, 125]

If the stock then goes to 130 in the same day, the same progress bar should now look like

X [########] 130 [100, 130]

(Note: I'm placing no restriction on whether the length of the progress bar should change with increase in range - all i'm asking is that the current price should be accurately represented as a percentage of the range visually.)

Any ideas what packages I should look at (I really would prefer not having to implement it from scratch!!)

Please suggest a python 3.x approach if possible as well.

Answer 1

This is a pretty simple example of how to make a status bar on the console:

import sys
import time

def progress(count, total, status=''):
    bar_len = 60 # the lenght of the status bar
    filled_len = int(round(bar_len * count / float(total)))

    percents = round(100.0 * count / float(total), 1)
    bar = '#' * filled_len + '-' * (bar_len - filled_len)

    sys.stdout.write('[%s] %s%s ...%s\r' % (bar, percents, '%', status))
    sys.stdout.flush()

a=0

while a < 50:

    progress(a, 100)
    a = a+5
    time.sleep(2)

So, in the example above, the progress function is recalled in that while loop until variable a reaches 50. So, the important thing is the progress function.

I hope I helped you!

Answer 2

def progress_string(symbol, start, end, actual, bar_len=10):
    fill = int(bar_len*(actual-start)/(end-start))
    string = "#"*fill + " "*(bar_len-fill)
    if actual<start:
        string = " "*bar_len
    if actual>end:
        string = "#"*bar_len
    return "%s [%s] %.2f [%i, %i]"%(symbol, string, actual, start, end)


### TEST ###

START = 100
END = 125
X = 100
while X<=END:
    X+=.001
    time.sleep(.001)
    sys.stdout.flush()
    print(progress_string("X", START, END, X, bar_len=25), end="\r")

This will also replace the progress bar each time.