spinning star

[Ian Bicking]

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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