On Dec 14, 5:52 am, Karlo Lozovina <_kar...@_mosor.net_> wrote: > Carl Banks <pavlovevide...@gmail.com> wrote > innews:69d2698a-6f44-4d85-adc3-1180ab158...@r15g2000prd.googlegroups.com: > > > Unless you are referring to some wget screen mode I don't know about, > > I suspect wget outputs its progress bar using carriage returns > > without newlines. If that's all you want, there is no need to use > > curses. > > > Here is a little example program to illustrate: > > > import time, sys > > for i in range(21): > > sys.stdout.write('\rProgress: [' + '='*i + ' '*(20-i) + ']') > > sys.stdout.flush() > > time.sleep(1) > > sys.stdout.write("\nFinised!\n") > > Thanks, that's it! I just assumed wget uses curses for the progress bar, > so the carriage return didn't even cross my mind ;).
Sure. One other thing I'd like to point out is sometimes even if carriage return is not sufficient, you can get a little better control of the terminal by using escape sequences (quod Google). The more basic Xterm escape sequences work in pretty much any Unix-like environment you'd see these days, some might even work on a Windows terminal. For example, print "\033[2J\033[H" probably clears your screen and moves the cursor to top. Carl Banks -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
