[Tutor] Writing to the terminal?

[Corey Richardson]

On 12/10/2010 3:14 PM, Modulok wrote:
> List,
>
> Forgive me if I don't describe this well, I'm new to it:
>
> Assume I'm working in a command shell on a terminal. Something like
> tcsh on xterm, for example. I have a program which does *something*.
> Let's say it counts down from 10. How do I print a value, and then
> erase that value, replacing it with another value? Say I had something
> like '10' that appears, then wait a second, then the 10 is replaced by
> '9'... '8'.. and so forth. The point is, I don't want to print to a
> new line, nor do I want the new number to appear next to the previous
> number... I just want to change it in place. (If that makes any
> sense?) Think of console based progress counters in programs like
> fetch or wget, or lame.
>
> How do you do this in Python?
> -Modulok-
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I've never used it before, but I think the curses module does this.
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