Conditional progress bar

[manfredsc]

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The progress bar is always active, and there is no easy way to disable it, as the call to
tqdm contains "disable=False".
Omitting this argument seems to do exactly what I would like to have: "If set to None, disable on non-TTY".

It would be great if there would be a way to disable the progress bar in non-TTY situations.

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[manfredsc]

Starting with tqdm 4.66, there are env variables to tweak behavior. Following variables are helpful in this context:

    export TQDM_MININTERVAL=10  # Minimum progress display update interval in seconds, tqdm>=4.66
    export TQDM_DISABLE=None    # If set to None, disable on non-TTY, tqdm>=4.66

Nevertheless, return tqdm(disable=False, ...) is a bit rude IMHO. It would be more straightforward to set this setting to disable=None.