Jason Morgan wrote:
>  How do I print (stdout) to the same line repeatedly? I want to offer a
>  status bar for a script. I have tried the following:
> 
>  def statprint(s):  # s is a string
>  import sys
>  sys.stdout.write(s+" "*(78-len(s))+"\r")
> 
>  I got this from this ASPN page:
> 
>  http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/146038
> 
>  which seemed to be refering to Windows (I'm writing for Linux/*BSD). I
>  have tried the above function, but it prints in the same manner as
>  'print' does.
> 
> 
>  Thanks for the help in advance.
> 
>  Cheers,
>  Jason

Try just adding a semicolon at the end of the print statement.
For example

print 1,
print 2

will give you
1 2

HTH,
Andrew Wilkinson


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