Communities

Writing
Writing
Codidact Meta
Codidact Meta
The Great Outdoors
The Great Outdoors
Photography & Video
Photography & Video
Scientific Speculation
Scientific Speculation
Cooking
Cooking
Electrical Engineering
Electrical Engineering
Judaism
Judaism
Languages & Linguistics
Languages & Linguistics
Software Development
Software Development
Mathematics
Mathematics
Christianity
Christianity
Code Golf
Code Golf
Music
Music
Physics
Physics
Linux Systems
Linux Systems
Power Users
Power Users
Tabletop RPGs
Tabletop RPGs
Community Proposals
Community Proposals
tag:snake search within a tag
answers:0 unanswered questions
user:xxxx search by author id
score:0.5 posts with 0.5+ score
"snake oil" exact phrase
votes:4 posts with 4+ votes
created:<1w created < 1 week ago
post_type:xxxx type of post
Search help
Notifications
Mark all as read See all your notifications »
Q&A

Welcome to Software Development on Codidact!

Will you help us build our independent community of developers helping developers? We're small and trying to grow. We welcome questions about all aspects of software development, from design to code to QA and more. Got questions? Got answers? Got code you'd like someone to review? Please join us.

Comments on How to overwrite lines of STDOUT in Python?

Post

How to overwrite lines of STDOUT in Python?

+4
−1

print() normally adds text to STDOUT, it does not erase existing text.

https://linux.codidact.com/posts/289869 describes various ways of doing the overwrite in shell scripts.

How can you do this in Python?

History
Why does this post require moderator attention?
You might want to add some details to your flag.
Why should this post be closed?

1 comment thread

I started writing an answer to this question despite my misgivings, but I think they're too serious t... (1 comment)
I started writing an answer to this question despite my misgivings, but I think they're too serious t...

I started writing an answer to this question despite my misgivings, but I think they're too serious to ignore. While the general idea is excellent, there are two serious problems here:

  1. Most of the question is language-agnostic (i.e. figuring out what needs to be sent to stdout); the only Python-specific part is the actual interface of the print function, i.e. why the end keyword parameter is necessary).

  2. There is a major lack of separation of concerns between the terminal and stdout itself. While I appreciate that a beginner is likely to phrase things in this way, a proper understanding of the problem requires making the distinction, and exploring the fact that Python itself does not actually display the text.

I figure on writing a self-answered, language-agnostic Q&A about the terminal/stdout distinction, after which hopefully we can discuss reworking this one.