spinning star

[Andrew Thomson]

thanks, 

that's awesome.

ajt.

On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 12:20:01AM -0500, Ian Bicking wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-05-27 at 00:06, Andrew Thomson wrote:
> > not really mission critical here, but what would approach would one take
> > to create a spinning star!.. ie, -\|/- etc etc..
> 
> Writing chr(13) does the trick, like:
> 
> 
> chars = "/-\\|"
> total = 10000
> for i in range(total):
>     sys.stdout.write(chr(13))
>     sys.stdout.write('%s %i/%i     ' % (chars[i % 4], i, total))
>     sys.stdout.flush()
>     time.sleep(0.1)
> 
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