Print formatting - same line printing?

[Michael Hudson]

"Bablos" <angband at blueyonder.co.uk> writes:

> On Sun, 04 Jun 2000 13:16:42 +0200, Peter Schneider-Kamp wrote;
> > Bablos wrote:
> > > 
> > > Is there a way that I can get Python to print this all on the same
> > > line, so that it looks as if the line is being updated constantly, as
> > > opposed to having a ridiculously long list of 'uploaded...' lines?
> > 
> > For unix you could just write:
> > 
> > print "\ruploaded",x,"bytes",
> 
> This is buffered on the Amiga, I assume.  I see very infrequent
> updates, so I assume it saves up a large number of print statements
> and then flushes them when it reaches a certain size.  Irmen?
> 
> But hey, at least '\v' works for me.  If it's all so very platform
> dependant, surely it would be wise to standardise it somehow to
> maintain some form of standard method?

Because I suspect the behaviour common to all the platforms that
Python runs on is so restricted as to be useless.

Can curses do Win32?  There's slang too, isn't there?

character-mode-neophyte-ly y'rs
M.

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