The Scoop on Python Input?

[Chris Barker]

Rainy wrote:
> 
> Also, there doesn't seem to be any
> way to unget the character, i.e. make a progress indicator that shows
> 37% 42% etc but in one place as something progresses, except in curses.

Yes, there is. But it's also not pretty:
import sys,time

for i in range(100):
    sys.stdout.write("  %i%%    \r"%i)
    sys.stdout.flush()
    time.sleep(.05)
sys.stdout.write("\n")




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