brandon w wrote:

> I am trying to print in the same place to make a clock in a tkinter
> window. I will loop the following code to update the time.
> 
> This seems to work but it is not printing in the same place:
> 
> #!/usr/bin/python
> #Python 2.6.6
> 
> import time
> 
> for t in range(5):
>      digits = time.strftime('%H:%M:%S')
>      print "\r", digits
>      time.sleep(0.1)

The print statement automatically adds a newline. Try

sys.stdout.write("\r" + digits)
sys.stdout.flush()

instead of print.

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