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[Tim Williams]

"Robbie" <user at domain.invalid> wrote in message
news:cfcndl$28em$1 at otis.netspace.net.au...

> Basically all I want to do is continuously write to the same line.
> So I could have a little rotating text thing showing that the script is
> working or display data ie, kb downloaded so far...
>
> ATM I am just calling a clear screen every pass with a little nap, nasty.
>

'\b' is a backspace, so.....

import sys,time

chars = ['|', '\\', '-', '/']
out = sys.stdout

def raw_print(txt):
    out.write("\b" + txt)
    out.flush()

while 1:
    for x in range(len(chars)):
        raw_print(chars[x])
        time.sleep(0.5)


Save as a script and run it from your command prompt.

>Also it would be nice to be able to change more than one line so I could
>have 4 threads open downloading something with 4 lines each stating the
>current status of each thread

The code above should be able to handle this too with a small amount of
modding ,   I'd use a simple queue to get the information back from the
threads in an ordered and safe manner

HTH