Once it’s installed, you can activate the ipywidgets plugin for JupyterLab by running,> pip install ipywidgets > jupyter nbextension enable –py widgetsnbextension> jupyter labextension install @jupyter-widgets/jupyterlab-managerTo activate tqdm in a notebook you just need to add a cell with,%%capturefrom tqdm import tqdm_notebook as tqdmtqdm().pandas()If you’re just going to be using tqdm in a script, you can skip both of these steps!Using tqdmYou can get a progress bar for any iterable by wrapping it with tqdm()..For example,my_list = list(range(100))for x in tqdm(my_list): passwill give you a (very fast) progress bar..You also use tqdm more explicitly,my_list = list(range(100))with tqdm(total=len(my_list)) as pbar: for x in my_list: pbar.update(1)There’s also a pandas integration,df.progress_apply(lambda x: pass)For more on using tqdm, including things like nested progress bars, check out their documentation.. More details