Typing letters slowly using sys

[Mitya Sirenef]

On 04/05/2013 10:04 AM, mattgraves7 at gmail.com wrote:
> I am using sys to give the effect that I am typing letters slowly. Basically what I want to have happen is have it show "Loading......" with the word loading appearing instantly and then the periods appearing slowly, as most loading screens do.
> This is what I have.
>
> dots = ('............')
> for x in dots:
>       sys.stdout.write(x)
>       sys.stdout.flush()
>       time.sleep(0.2)
> 				
> I cannot for the life of me figure out how to get the dots to appear on the same line as "Loading". Every way that I have attempted, the word "Loading" appears and then the dots appear on the next line.

If you're printing in 2.x, you can do:

print "Loading",

in 3.x,

print("Loading", end='')

  -m

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