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I can't get the characters to all be printed on one line.

list = ["W","e","l","c","o","m","e","","t","o","","w","o","r","d","l","e"]
for item in list:
  sleep(0.25)
  print(item)

i tried using a list and imported the sleep library

Michael M.
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By default, print() ends each string with a newline character, but you can change this by providing your own ending string with the end= keyword argument. In your case, you'll want to pass end='' to print nothing at the end.

Also, by default, your terminal won't show any text unless there's a new line because of line buffering. To fix this, flush the output with flush=True

from time import sleep

lst = ["W","e","l","c","o","m","e","","t","o","","w","o","r","d","l","e"]
for item in lst:
    sleep(0.25)
    print(item, end='', flush=True)
Michael M.
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Did you know that you can iterate over strings? That means you don't need a list of chars:

import time

message = "Welcome to WORDLE"
for letter in message:
    print(letter, end="", flush=True)
    time.sleep(0.25)
print()
  • The end="" parameter tells print to place an empty string at the end, instead of the default '\n'
  • The flush=True parameter tells print to output the character right away instead of waiting for the internal buffer to get full before outputing.
Hai Vu
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In your print, add this code after item as a second parameter : end=''. By default, every time you printed, the default value \n was added.

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  • Nothing will be printed because of line buffering. You'll need to either turn off line buffering or flush the output each time. – Michael M. Mar 18 '23 at 16:27
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The print function takes an end argument, by default a newline. Change that to an empty string to get all letters on one line. You also need to add flush=True so that Python doesn't buffer the output till the line is done.

from time import sleep

letters = ["W","e","l","c","o","m","e","","t","o","","w","o","r","d","l","e"]
for letter in letters:
  sleep(0.25)
  print(letter, end='', flush=True)

As pointed out by @Michael M., it's bad practice to name your variable e.g., "list", as this hides / shadows the official list keyword. I've renamed it to "letters" here, which makes it clearer what it is used for.

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