A simple way to print few line stuck to the same position

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Thu, 02 Jun 2011 21:22:40 +0800, TheSaint wrote:

> Hello
> I studying some way to print few line in the console that won't scroll
> down. If was for a single line I've some idea, but several line it may
> take some vertical tab and find the original first position. I don't
> know anything about course module, some example will be highly
> apreciated.

I think you want something like this:


import sys
import time

def spinner():
    chars = '|/-\\'
    for i in range(30):
        for c in chars:
            sys.stdout.write('    %3d ::  %s\r' % (i, c))
            sys.stdout.flush()
            time.sleep(0.2)


-- 
Steven