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Observed arrival · 2026-09-10

RunScope — the progress bar that doesn't lie

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An open-source Python progress estimator for long-running, enumerable jobs, built as a drop-in companion to tqdm.

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RunScope is designed for enumerable workloads whose future items are already available, such as files, records, images, simulations, and parameter grids. Its examples show a tqdm-compatible Python interface and an ETA expressed as a range, including 1h12m–1h31m for a loop 17,492 items into a 48,000-item run. The page attributes its sampling method to Horvitz-Thompson estimation and says the tool declines to invent an estimate when the workload cannot be assessed honestly.

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