Printing dots in single-line

[Jay O'Connor]

Alok Singhal wrote:

>On Thu, 13 Nov 2003 12:22:01 -0300, trofe wrote:
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>>Hey there,
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>>I want to print some dots in a single-line while my program loads or
>>does something. I tried with he following but it didn't work :(.
>>
>>while 1:
>>    print '.',
>>
>>Prints line of dots separated by a whitespace (. . . . . . etc). Is
>>there a way I can get it to display them without that white space
>>(.......etc)?
>>    
>>
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>print('.' * n)
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>where n is the number of dots you want to print.
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>Incidentally, I saw other responses, and most of them suggest
>sys.stdout.write().  Is there a reason that is preferable over the
>solution above?
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The solution you give will not work when you want to do processing 
between each dot.