command line reports

[Peter Hansen]

Darren Dale wrote:
> Is there a module somewhere that intelligently deals with reports to the
> command line? I would like to report the progress of some pretty lengthy
> simulations, and currently I have the new reports written on a new line
> rather rather than overwriting the previous report.

You mean you want sys.stdout.write(report + '\r') instead of "print 
report" ?

It's not really clear what you want.  What's a "report" to you?

-Peter