[Tutor] carriage return on windows
Kent Johnson
kent37 at tds.net
Sun Jan 30 04:11:54 CET 2005
It seems to work fine in Win2k command shell; try this:
>>> import time
>>> time.sleep(1)
>>> for i in range(9):
... print 'i is', i, '\r',
... time.sleep(1)
I get all the output on one line.
Kent
Jacob S. wrote:
> I don't think that's what he wants. I think he wants to *overwrite*
> what's in the shell with new output.
> For example.
>
> Python 2.4 (#Stuff)
> ...
>
>>>>
> Percent complete: 50
>
>
> becomes...
>
> Python2.4(#Stuff)
> ...
>
>>>>
> Percent complete: 51
>
> so that the whole line is overwritten. In my experience, this is not
> possible and if anyone can show me how to do it,
> I would be grateful.
>
> HTH,
> Jacob
>
>
>>
>> On Jan 30, 2005, at 02:18, R. Alan Monroe wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>> print "Percent completed:" + str(percent) + "\r"
>>>
>>>
>>> Print forces a newline.
>>> Try sys.stdout.write instead.
>>>
>>> Alan
>>
>>
>> You can also use the following syntax:
>>
>> >>> print "Percent completed:", str(percent), "\r",
>>
>> The trailing comma is NOT a typo, it is intentional. It prevents print
>> from appending a newline.
>>
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