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4.26.0 3.6.6 (default, Aug 21 2018, 23:42:39) 
[GCC 4.2.1 Compatible Apple LLVM 9.1.0 (clang-902.0.39.2)] darwin

I'm using a package that uses tqdm internally and I'd like to disable tqdm from within application code.

#612 would've been ideal. It was closed because the solution solved the problem for the author of the issue but not for us since we cannot modify library code. Thanks.