Thanks for the answer! > import that instead of tqdm.tqdm But it's not me who is importing tqdm to begin with! I call many programs in parallel from shell sc

Thanks for the answer! > import that instead of tqdm.tqdm But it's not me who is importing tqdm to begin with! I call many programs in parallel from shell scripts (out of my control) and they all call tqdm individually. I need to stop tqdm output from outside these programs. Your code should be part of tqdm itself, not written by individual programmers. > am I running in an automated environment, or is a human user looking at my output? But I want to stop tqdm output precisely because I'm a human looking at it. If you have more than one or two progress bars simultaneously, it becomes useless clutter. As much as I like to use tqdm myself for my programs, I'm sad that as tqdm becomes more and more popular, my terminal output becomes more and more cluttered, to an absurd amount. Piping the output to a file does not help and is totally the wrong idea. I'm precisely interested in seeing--in real time--the part of the output that does not come from tqdm, such as warnings and errors.