[Tutor] Displaying Status on the Command Line

[Chip Wachob]

Wow!

Thank you!

Lots of things for me to try.

I should have mentioned that I'm working with Python 2, but I think I
can parse my way through these examples.

Best,

On 11/7/18, Cameron Simpson <cs at cskk.id.au> wrote:
> On 08Nov2018 10:00, Steven D'Aprano <steve at pearwood.info> wrote:
>>> Note that I need this to be platform agnostic.
>>
>>That's hard, even on a single platform like Linux.
>
> Most, nearly all, terminal honour carriage return and backspace. That is
> technically enough. Even terminals with a destructive backspace (rare -
> it is normally just a cursor motion) can get by (backspace, overwrite
> the new text).
>
>>Most xterminal windows use either the xterm or vt1000 set of commands,
>>which are broadly similar, but that's not guaranteed. If somebody
>>happens to be running a different terminal type, they'll see something
>>weird.
>>
>>And I have no idea what happens on Windows.
>
> I'd sort of expect Windows terminals, even cmd.exe, to accept the ANSI
> sequences, which is what vt100 and xterms use. But that is expectation,
> not knowledge.
>
> Cheers,
> Cameron Simpson <cs at cskk.id.au>
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