Printing digits in one place

[John Machin]

On Nov 25, 10:21 am, Oltmans <rolf.oltm... at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm writing a file-transfer program and I'm receiving bytes
> transferred in a function. Now I would like to print bytes transfered
> in one place e.g.
>
> Bytes Transfered so far X
>
> and X will increase and cursor should stay at this position. I don't
> want to use any 3rd party module for this. Can I somehow do that
> without using any third-party module?
>
> I've been able to do this with Console module available athttp://effbot.org/zone/console-handbook.htmbut I would want to do
> this without the Console module. Actually , I'm able to initialize the
> Console module and print the bytes transferrred information but I
> can't find a way to exit from Console module so that my other
> functions can proceed with normal display using 'print' statement.
>
> Any ideas will be appreciated.

Try using backspaces e.g. something like this:

| >>> import time, sys
| >>> msg = ''
| >>> for i in range(15):
| ...    time.sleep(2.0)
| ...    nbs = len(msg)
| ...    msg = str(i)
| ...    sys.stdout.write('\b' * nbs + msg)
| ...

HTH,
John