<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 2:38 PM, Corey Richardson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kb1pkl@aim.com">kb1pkl@aim.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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On 12/10/2010 3:34 PM, Wayne Werner wrote:<br>
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If you just want a single line you can use chr(13) which is a carriage<br>
return. If you want a more complex program you'll need a curses type<br>
library<br>
hth, wayne<br>
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On 12/10/10, Modulok<<a href="mailto:modulok@gmail.com" target="_blank">modulok@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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List,<br>
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Forgive me if I don't describe this well, I'm new to it:<br>
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Assume I'm working in a command shell on a terminal. Something like<br>
tcsh on xterm, for example. I have a program which does *something*.<br>
Let's say it counts down from 10. How do I print a value, and then<br>
erase that value, replacing it with another value? Say I had something<br>
like '10' that appears, then wait a second, then the 10 is replaced by<br>
'9'... '8'.. and so forth. The point is, I don't want to print to a<br>
new line, nor do I want the new number to appear next to the previous<br>
number... I just want to change it in place. (If that makes any<br>
sense?) Think of console based progress counters in programs like<br>
fetch or wget, or lame.<br>
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How do you do this in Python?<br>
-Modulok-<br>
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Try that in the interactive interpreter, it doesn't work.<br>
>>> print "a" + chr(13)<br>
a<br>
(Python 2.6.6)<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Actually, it does:</div><div> >>> print 'a' + chr(13) + 'b'</div><div>b</div><div><br></div><div>The cursor moves back, you just didn't bother to overwrite the 'a'.</div>
<div><br></div><div>HTH,</div><div>Wayne</div></div><br>