Reducing cache/buffer for faster display

[Chris Angelico]

On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 10:05 AM, Rikishi42 <skunkworks at rikishi42.net> wrote:
> The scripts in question only increase numbers. But should that not be the
> case, solutions are simple enough. The numbers can be formatted to have a
> fixed size. In the case of random line contents (a list of filesnames, say)
> it's enough to create an output function that is aware of the length of the
> previously printed line, and add enough spaces to the current one to wipe
> exess content.

Yep, that's a pretty effective way to do it. One simple method to it
is to format the whole string as a single whole, then left justify it
in a field of (say) 79 characters, and output that:

msg = "Progress: %d%% (%d/%d)... %s" % (done*100/total, done, total,
current_file)
print msg.ljust(79)+"\r",
sys.stdout.flush()

ChrisA