Printing dots in sequence ('...')

[beertje]

[...]

maybe this: (on Win32, don't know about *nix)
print '.\b',

print '\b.',
--
rzed

print '.\b' gives a nice and funky output though... Thanks for your
suggestions, all!

[Larry Bates]

This is a very newbie question for my first post, perhaps
appropriately.
I want to print '....' gradually, as a progress indicator. I have a
print '.',
This results in something like 'Loading. . . .', whereas I want
'Loading....'
A pet peeve, I can't for the life of me figure out how to get this
desired output. How do I print dots - or anything for that matter - in
sequence without a space being inserted in between?
Thanks.
Bj?rn

I wrote this a donated to Python Cookbook some time ago, enjoy.

http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/299207

-Larry

[Tim Williams]

This is a very newbie question for my first post, perhaps
appropriately.
I want to print '....' gradually, as a progress indicator. I have a
print '.',
This results in something like 'Loading. . . .', whereas I want
'Loading....'
A pet peeve, I can't for the life of me figure out how to get this
desired output. How do I print dots - or anything for that matter - in
sequence without a space being inserted in between?

maybe this: (on Win32, don't know about *nix)

for x in range(10):
print '.\b',

[beertje]

Perfect, thanks :)

[Larry Bates]

This is a very newbie question for my first post, perhaps
appropriately.
I want to print '....' gradually, as a progress indicator. I have a
print '.',
This results in something like 'Loading. . . .', whereas I want
'Loading....'
A pet peeve, I can't for the life of me figure out how to get this
desired output. How do I print dots - or anything for that matter - in
sequence without a space being inserted in between?
Thanks.
Bj?rn

See example here:

http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/299207

-Larry

[Peter Otten]

This is a very newbie question for my first post, perhaps
appropriately.
I want to print '....' gradually, as a progress indicator. I have a
print '.',
This results in something like 'Loading. . . .', whereas I want
'Loading....'
A pet peeve, I can't for the life of me figure out how to get this
desired output.

I love understatement.

How do I print dots - or anything for that matter - in
sequence without a space being inserted in between?

import sys, time

... sys.stdout.write(".")
... sys.stdout.flush()
... time.sleep(.1)
...
..........>>>

write() does the writing, flush() is to defeat the buffering; without it the
dots would be withhold until the next newline. The time.sleep() call is
that you can see it is actually one dot at a time.

Peter

[rzed]

"Tim Williams" <tim at tdw.net> wrote in
news:mailman.8029.1179845747.32031.python-list at python.org:

[...]

maybe this: (on Win32, don't know about *nix)
print '.\b',

better:
print '\b.',

[beertje]

This is a very newbie question for my first post, perhaps
appropriately.

I want to print '....' gradually, as a progress indicator. I have a
for-loop that every 10 steps executes:
print '.',

This results in something like 'Loading. . . .', whereas I want
'Loading....'

A pet peeve, I can't for the life of me figure out how to get this
desired output. How do I print dots - or anything for that matter - in
sequence without a space being inserted in between?

Thanks.
Bj?rn