While not "curses" based this class will update screen as you want. You could use it as a basis upon which to do a curses version with your cursor positioning.
http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/299207 -Larry Bates Mage wrote: > Dear All, > > I am writing a database import script in python and I would like to > print the percentage of the process to the last line. I would like to > update the last line at every percent. You know what I mean. > > How can the cursor be positioned to the last line or somewhere else on > the screen? Curses starts with clearing the whole screen and it is > overkill. Many modules are on the net but I would like to resolve this > simply task with native python. > > I tried: > > for something: > print chr(8)*20+mystring, > > but it is nasty and didn't work well. > > Mage > -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list