[Tutor] updating a print statement

[Kent Johnson]

Bryan Fodness wrote:
> I do want to overwrite the same line.
>  
> I do not see a difference between using the \r and not using it.

How are you running the program? Try it from a command line if that is 
not what you are doing. Can you show your new code?

Kent

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> 
> On Dec 10, 2007 2:43 PM, Kent Johnson <kent37 at tds.net 
> <mailto:kent37 at tds.net>> wrote:
> 
>     Bryan Fodness wrote:
>      > I have a print statement in a for loop so I can watch the progress
>      >
>      > for line in file(file):
>      >     the_line = line.split()
>      >     if the_line:
>      >         print ("Index = %.2f") %index
>      >
>      > Is there a way that only one line will be output and the variable is
>      > updated rather than one line for every index.
> 
>     I'm not sure I understand what you are asking. index is never
>     updated in
>     the loop above.
> 
>     If you want to overwrite the same line on the console, try
>       print "\rIndex = %.2f" % index,
> 
>     note ----^
>          ---------------------------^
> 
>     You might need some extra spaces at the end of the print to 'erase' a
>     longer previous line.
> 
>     Kent
> 
> 
> 
> 
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