[Tutor] Return cursor to beginning of line, to overprint, in DOS/windows

[Gerrit Holl]

R. Alan Monroe schreef op woensdag 19 februari om 05:09:28 +0000:
> Is there a special backslash code I can use in a print statement to
> move the cursor back to beginning of the line, to keep printing on the
> same line over and over? I tried "\r" but that didn't work.
> 
> It seems like this has come up before but I searched my mail archives
> for "carriage" "beginning" "return" etc. and couldn't find it.

Works here:
> 
Python 2.3a1 (#1, Jan  5 2003, 16:06:30)
[GCC 2.96 20000731 (Red Hat Linux 7.3 2.96-110)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
  0 >>> print "aaa\rb"
  baa

What did you try exactly? Remember that 'print' prints a newline
after the expression.

yours,
Gerrit.

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