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[mattia]

Il Sat, 17 Oct 2009 10:38:55 -0400, Dave Angel ha scritto:

> mattia wrote:
>> Il Fri, 16 Oct 2009 22:40:34 -0700, Dennis Lee Bieber ha scritto:
>>
>>
>>> On Fri, 16 Oct 2009 23:39:38 -0400, Dave Angel <davea at ieee.org>
>>> declaimed the following in gmane.comp.python.general:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> You're presumably testing this in the interpreter, which prints extra
>>>> stuff.  In particular, it prints the result value of any expressions
>>>> entered at the interpreter prompt.  So if you type
>>>>
>>>> sys.stdout.write("hello")
>>>>
>>>> then after the write() method is done, the return value of the method
>>>> (5) will get printed by the interpreter.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> 	I was about to respond that way myself, but before doing so I
>>>     
>> wanted
>>   
>>> to produce an example in the interpreter window... But no effect?
>>>
>>> C:\Documents and Settings\Dennis Lee Bieber>python ActivePython
>>> 2.5.2.2 (ActiveState Software Inc.) based on Python 2.5.2 (r252:60911,
>>> Mar 27 2008, 17:57:18) [MSC v.1310 32 bit (Intel)] on win32 Type
>>> "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>>     
>>>>>> import sys
>>>>>> sys.stdout.write("hello")
>>>>>>           
>>> hello>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> PythonWin 2.5.2 (r252:60911, Mar 27 2008, 17:57:18) [MSC v.1310 32 bit
>>> (Intel)] on win32.
>>> Portions Copyright 1994-2006 Mark Hammond - see 'Help/About PythonWin'
>>> for further copyright information.
>>>     
>>>>>> import sys
>>>>>> sys.stdout.write("This is a test")
>>>>>>           
>>> This is a test
>>>     
>>>>>> print sys.stdout.write("Hello")
>>>>>>           
>>> HelloNone
>>>     
>>>     
>>> 	No count shows up... neither PythonWin or Windows command line/
>>>     
>> shell
>>
>> Indeed I'm using py3. But now everythong is fine. Everything I just
>> wanted to know was just to run this simple script (I've also sent the
>> msg 'putchar(8)' to the newsgroup):
>>
>> import time
>> import sys
>>
>> val = ("|", "/", "-", "\\", "|", "/", "-", "\\") for i in range(100+1):
>>     print("=", end="")
>>     # print("| ", end="")
>>     print(val[i%len(val)], " ", sep="", end="") print(i, "%", sep="",
>>     end="")
>>     sys.stdout.flush()
>>     time.sleep(0.1)
>>     if i > 9:
>>         print("\x08"*5, " "*5, "\x08"*5, sep="", end="")
>>     else:
>>         print("\x08"*4, " "*4, "\x08"*4, sep="", end="")
>> print(" 100%\nDownload complete!")
>>
>>
> Seems to me you're spending too much energy defeating the things that
> print() is automatically doing for you.  The whole point of write() is
> that it doesn't do anything but ship your string to the file/device.  So
> if you want control, do your own formatting.
> 
> Consider:
> 
> import time, sys, itertools
> 
> val = ("|", "/", "-", "\\", "|", "/", "-", "\\") sys.stdout.write("    
> ")
> pattern = "\x08"*8 + "   {0}{1:02d}%" for percentage, string in
> enumerate(itertools.cycle(val)):
>     if percentage>99 : break
>     paddednum = pattern.format(string, percentage)
>     sys.stdout.write(paddednum)
>     sys.stdout.flush()
>     time.sleep(0.1)
> print("\x08\x08\x08\x08 100%\nDownload complete!")
> 
> 
> Note the use of cycle() which effectively repeats a list indefinitely.
> And enumerate, which makes an index for you automatically when you're
> iterating through a list.  And  str.format() that builds our string,
> including using 0 padding so the percentages are always two digits.
> 
> 
> DaveA

It's always good to learn something new, thanks!