Hi! > in c and c++ there is a useful way to refresh an output line in printf > and cout using \r meta command. So for example in the wget application > the progress of the download is updated on the same output line of the > screen. From an intital investigation python seems to lack this. Is > this correct?
No. Well, I think you can't do it with print, but you can do this: import sys import time signs = "|/-\\" while 1: for i in signs: sys.stdout.write(i+"\r") sys.stdout.flush() time.sleep(0.2) Regards, Markus -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list