Chris Seymour wrote:
I am working on a python script for my colleague that will walk a
directory and search in the different files for a specific string.
These pieces I am able to do. What my colleague wants is that when
she runs the script the filename is replaced by the current file that
is being processed. So instead of seeing a series of files being
listed down the page, she only wants to see the file currently being
processed.
You should know that printing "\b" issues a backspace. You can couple
this with printing without line endings using a trailing comma:
print "Now processing file", # Trailing comma = no line ending
previous = ""
names = ["one", "two", "three"]
for name in names:
if previous:
print "\b" * (len(previous) + 2), # Trailing comma again
print name, # Yet another trailing comma
previous = name
# Do whatever other processing you need here
print # At last a line ending
Hope this helps.
- Alex
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