On Nov 25, 10:21 am, Oltmans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm writing a file-transfer program and I'm receiving bytes > transferred in a function. Now I would like to print bytes transfered > in one place e.g. > > Bytes Transfered so far X > > and X will increase and cursor should stay at this position. I don't > want to use any 3rd party module for this. Can I somehow do that > without using any third-party module? > > I've been able to do this with Console module available > athttp://effbot.org/zone/console-handbook.htmbut I would want to do > this without the Console module. Actually , I'm able to initialize the > Console module and print the bytes transferrred information but I > can't find a way to exit from Console module so that my other > functions can proceed with normal display using 'print' statement. > > Any ideas will be appreciated.
Try using backspaces e.g. something like this: | >>> import time, sys | >>> msg = '' | >>> for i in range(15): | ... time.sleep(2.0) | ... nbs = len(msg) | ... msg = str(i) | ... sys.stdout.write('\b' * nbs + msg) | ... HTH, John -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list