enlighten
Enlighten Progress Bar
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Yes. Enlighten is actively maintained, has no known vulnerabilities, low install friction, and solves a real problem—displaying progress without disrupting normal output. The MPLv2.0 copyleft license is permissive for most use cases. Install it if you need terminal progress bars in a Python CLI or batch tool.AI-flagged interpretation of the facts on this page — verify before relying
Before you install
- Low install friction with a pure-wheel distribution.
- Actively maintained as of 2026-05-21 with 534 repository stars and no known security vulnerabilities.
License · maintenance · safety
MPLv2.0 (copyleft) — Licensed under MPLv2.0 (copyleft). You may use and modify the package freely, but derivative works and distributions must retain the license and disclose source changes.
last release 2025-03-10 (522 days) · last repo commit 2026-05-21 · 534 stars
0 known vulnerabilities (OSV.dev, 2026-08-14) · 870,463 downloads/mo, #4,848 on PyPI
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pip install enlighten
import enlighten
import time
manager = enlighten.get_manager()
pbar = manager.counter(total=100, desc='Progress', unit='items')
for i in range(100):
time.sleep(0.1)
pbar.update()- Jupyter Notebook support is described as 'experimental' but the fact sheet does not detail its maturity or limitations.
- Whether the library handles edge cases like very narrow terminal widths or non-UTF-8 encodings gracefully.
What it is and what it does
Enlighten is a console progress bar library for Python that renders progress bars, counters, and status bars directly in the terminal. It solves the problem of displaying progress feedback while still allowing normal print() and logging calls to stdout and stderr without requiring output redirection or special handling. The library depends on blessed for terminal control, prefixed for unit formatting, and backports.functools-lru-cache for compatibility.
The typical workflow is to create a manager via get_manager(), then call methods like counter() or status_bar() to create individual progress indicators. Multiple bars can run concurrently, and they automatically disable themselves when output is not attached to a TTY. The library supports color, multicolored bars to track multiple categories, and custom formatting of bar appearance.
Use it for
- Display progress during long-running batch jobs or data processing pipelines while logging intermediate results.
- Show multiple concurrent progress bars for parallel tasks, such as downloading multiple files or processing multiple datasets.
- Render status bars with dynamic variable updates to communicate application state changes in real time.
- Add colored progress indicators to CLI tools to improve user feedback without cluttering output with print statements.
- Track task completion in scripts that also write diagnostic logs, keeping both streams readable.
Worth the install?
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Yes.
Enlighten is actively maintained, has no known vulnerabilities, low install friction, and solves a real problem—displaying progress without disrupting normal output. The MPLv2.0 copyleft license is permissive for most use cases. Install it if you need terminal progress bars in a Python CLI or batch tool.
Install
enlighten on PyPI
Before you install
Low install friction with a pure-wheel distribution. Actively maintained as of 2026-05-21 with 534 repository stars and no known security vulnerabilities.
License in practice
Licensed under MPLv2.0 (copyleft). You may use and modify the package freely, but derivative works and distributions must retain the license and disclose source changes.
Quickstart
pip install enlighten
import enlighten
import time
manager = enlighten.get_manager()
pbar = manager.counter(total=100, desc='Progress', unit='items')
for i in range(100):
time.sleep(0.1)
pbar.update()Verify before relying
- Jupyter Notebook support is described as 'experimental' but the fact sheet does not detail its maturity or limitations.
- Whether the library handles edge cases like very narrow terminal widths or non-UTF-8 encodings gracefully.
Package facts
| License | MPLv2.0 copyleft |
| Python support | Not specified |
| Install friction | Low. Pure-Python wheel |
| Runtime dependencies | 3 packagesblessedprefixedbackports.functools-lru-cache |
| Maintenance | Actively maintained 522 days since the last release |
| Last repo commit | |
| First released | |
| Downloads | 870,463 / month, #4,848 on PyPI 30-day window, as of 2026-08-14 |
| Known vulnerabilities | None known OSV.dev, checked 2026-08-14 |
| Classifiers | Development Status :: 5 - Production/StableEnvironment :: ConsoleIntended Audience :: DevelopersLicense :: OSI Approved :: Mozilla Public License 2.0 (MPL 2.0)Operating System :: Microsoft :: WindowsOperating System :: POSIXProgramming Language :: PythonProgramming Language :: Python :: 2.7Programming Language :: Python :: 3.10Programming Language :: Python :: 3.11Programming Language :: Python :: 3.12Programming Language :: Python :: 3.13Programming Language :: Python :: 3.5Programming Language :: Python :: 3.6Programming Language :: Python :: 3.7Programming Language :: Python :: 3.8Programming Language :: Python :: 3.9Programming Language :: Python :: Implementation :: CPythonProgramming Language :: Python :: Implementation :: PyPyTopic :: Utilities |
Evidence: enlighten-1.14.1-py2.py3-none-any.whl
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