Jake wrote: > 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? >
>>> for i in range(10000): ... print '\r',i,'and counting', ... 9999 and counting (not obvious from the copy/paste of the output is that it also displayed the intervening numbers as it counted). The important thing is to end each print statement with a comma (or use sys.stdout.write). -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list