for item in bar: do_something_with(item) Alternatively, if no iterable is specified, one can manually update the progress bar through the `update()` method instead of directly iterating over the progress bar. The update method accepts the number of steps to increment the bar with:: with progressbar(length=chunks.total_bytes) as bar: for chunk in chunks: process_chunk(chunk) bar.update(chunks.bytes) .. versionadded:: 2.0 .. versionadded:: 4.0 Added the `color` parameter. Added a `update` method to the progressbar object. :param iterable: an iterable to iterate over. If not provided the length is required. :param length: the number of items to iterate over. By default the progressbar will attempt to ask the iterator about its length, which might or might not work. If an iterable is also provided this parameter can be used to override the length. If an iterable is not provided the progress bar will iterate over a range of that length. :param label: the label to show next to the progress bar. :param show_eta: enables or disables the estimated time display. This is automatically disabled if the length cannot be determined. :param show_percent: enables or disables the percentage display. The default is `True` if the iterable has a length or `False` if not. :param show_pos: enables or disables the absolute position display. The default is `False`. :param item_show_func: a function called with the current item which can return a string to show the current item next to the progress bar. Note that the current item can be `None`! :param fill_char: the character to use to show the filled part of the progress bar. :param empty_char: the character to use to show the non-filled part of the progress bar. :param bar_template: the format string to use as template for the bar. The parameters in it are ``label`` for the label, ``bar`` for the progress bar and ``info`` for the info section. :param info_sep: the separator between multiple info items (eta etc.) :param width: the width of the progress bar in characters, 0 means full terminal width :param file: the file to write to. If this is not a terminal then only the label is printed. :param color: controls if the terminal supports ANSI colors or not. The default is autodetection. This is only needed if ANSI codes are included anywhere in the progress bar output which is not the case by default. r