> print "Percent completed:" + str(percent) + "\r" > > Which should send me back to the beginning of the line and overwrite it > with a new line. But instead I get: > > Percent completed: 50 > Percent completed: 51
Print always adds a newline unless you put a comma at the end. Unfortunately that results in a character being lost too so I recommend using a tab at the front like this: for n in range(20): print "\tAt line: %5s" % n Also be aware that on sime systems \r is the newline character in which case the method I use is to backspace the number of characters occupied by my data (5 in the case above) using \010. Something like this slightly flawed example: >>> def f(): ... print "Label: ", ... for n in range(5): ... print "%s%3s" % ('\010' * 3, n), ... I'll leave debugging it as an excercise for the reader! :-) HTH, Alan G Author of the Learn to Program web tutor http://www.freenetpages.co.uk/hp/alan.gauld _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor