screen output problem

[Calvin Spealman]

On 25 Nov 2006 15:27:26 -0800, Ritesh Raj Sarraf <rrs at researchut.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have, for very long, been trying to find a consistent solution (which
> could work across major python platforms - Linux, Windows, Mac OS X)
> for the following problem.
>
> I have a function which downloads files from the web. I've made the
> function threaded. I'm trying to implement a progress bar for it which
> could work across all the platforms.
>
> The problem is that when the progress bar is displayed, all the threads
> overwrite the progress bar.
>
> I've thought of using curses but AFAIK curses is not available for
> Windows.
>
> Is there a generic way to accomplish the following:
>
> progress = "[===================]\n[=======================]"
> for x in range(5):
>     sys.stdout.write(progress + "\r")
>
> Basically, I want a way through which I want to display data on two
> lines and make sure that "\r" overwrites the two lines without putting
> a newline making sure that whatever library it uses is available across
> all major Python platforms.
>
> Thanks,
> Ritesh
>
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Take a look at this:
http://cheeseshop.python.org/pypi/progressbar

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