yeah my code needs to use multiprocessing, which does not play nice with tqdm. thanks for the tip about positions though, that helped me search more effectively and came up with two promising comments. unmerged / require some workarounds, but might just work:

https://github.com/tqdm/tqdm/issues/1000#issuecomment-184208... https://github.com/tqdm/tqdm/issues/811#issuecomment-1368850...