how to suppress carriage return/line feed?

[Erik Max Francis]

TuxTrax wrote:

> Erik, if you would, I would like to see an example of
> sys.stdout.write()
> and flush() in action, with a sample codelet. Thanks,

	import sys, time

	for i in range(10):
	    sys.stdout.write("Counting %s\r")
	    sys.stdout.flush()
	    time.sleep(1)

As I pointed out earlier, this still isn't a perfect solution; you're
not guaranteed that some terminals won't interpret '\r' (CR)
differently.  For instance, on a Mac, this would likely print each one
on a separate line.  On Windows and UNIX, it will likely work, but again
you could conceivably be using some terminal that does something
different.

If you really want total positioning control, you'll have to go with
some solution like curses (but that isn't available for Windows).

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