Typing letters slowly using sys

Matt mattgraves7 at gmail.com
Fri Apr 5 11:10:53 EDT 2013


On Friday, April 5, 2013 10:04:49 AM UTC-4, Matt 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.

Sorry guys, I may have not been clear. The part I pasted does work, but I cannot figure out how to get that to print after the word "Loading". So it will instantly print "Loading", and then the "..........." will appear slowly



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