often I use the same code on my local dev machine and a cluster node. To not mess up the log files I normally turn off tqdm. While this is a simple change in the python code, I think it would actually be more convenient to let tqdm check for environment variables and thereby add some level of system level control over tqdm.

e.g. TQDM=disabled python run.py could quickly disable tqdm in any script.
This should be easy to implement using os.environ.get(). I can compile a PR if you like this proposal

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