How to remove the existing string when doing a "\r" carriage return?python3

Asked Aug 26 '18 at 07:36

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I am trying to print sequence of numbers in one line dynamically

p=['3.333','2.22','1.1']
for d in p:
    time.sleep(0.1)
    sys.stdout.write('\r'+d)
    sys.stdout.flush()

But the output is not as expected.

At last we get:

1.123

Actually I want it to be 1.1 , So how do I remove the existing Characters?

asked Aug 26 '18 at 07:36

Yashik

You delete each character - \r just jumps to the start of the line. You could also simply print enough spaces after each number to overwrite the last numbers digits - for your example something like `sys.stdout.write('\r'+d+" "*10)` shoiuld suffice – Patrick Artner Aug 26 '18 at 07:42
@PatrickArtner nice dupe find – Jean-François Fabre Aug 26 '18 at 07:44
@Jean-FrançoisFabre thanks - this kind of question mostly pops up with "I want to print the time and change the seconds"-kind of tasks, there are several of those answered already, this dupe was just the one I found first ;) – Patrick Artner Aug 26 '18 at 07:46

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