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Printing/updating output to the screen

Daniel Ehrenberg LittleDanEhren at yahoo.com
Thu Jan 29 17:07:25 EST 2004 
Daniel Pryde <dpryde+usenet at cis.strath.ac.uk> wrote in message news:<40192945$1 at nntphost.cis.strath.ac.uk>...
> Hi there. I hope this isn't a stupid question to ask, but does anyone 
> know how to print out a string without moving to a new line each time 
> and simply updating the first line. An example would be, if I wanted to 
> have a percentage progress counter that was constantly updating. I'm 
> unsure how to do this without printing to a brand new line. Any help 
> would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
> 
> Daniel

Put a comma after it. For example:

print "hi",

This, however, also prints a space. If that's not what you want, do the following:

from sys import stdout
stdout.write("hi")

That won't append a space or a newline.


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