Printing dots in sequence ('...')

[Tim Williams]

On 22 May 2007 01:02:31 -0700, beertje <bjornkri at gmail.com> wrote:
> This is a very newbie question for my first post, perhaps
> appropriately.
>
> I want to print '....' gradually, as a progress indicator. I have a
> for-loop that every 10 steps executes:
> print '.',
>
> This results in something like 'Loading. . . .', whereas I want
> 'Loading....'
>
> A pet peeve, I can't for the life of me figure out how to get this
> desired output. How do I print dots - or anything for that matter - in
> sequence without a space being inserted in between?
>

maybe this:   (on Win32, don't know about *nix)

for x in range(10):
  print '.\b',



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Tim Williams