Martin Panter added the comment: Python itself doesn’t treat backspace specially. What you are probably seeing is the terminal interpreting the backspace specially by moving the cursor left (without erasing anything).
>>> s = "12345" + '\b' + '6' >>> s '12345\x086' >>> s[5] # ASCII code for backspace is 0x08 '\x08' If you redirect the output to a file or other program, you will also see the backspace code is still there: $ python2 -c 'print "12345" + "\b" + "6"' | hexdump -C 00000000 31 32 33 34 35 08 36 0a |12345.6.| 00000008 ---------- components: -Regular Expressions nosy: +martin.panter resolution: -> not a bug status: open -> closed _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue25174> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
