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You can use the carriage return control character "\r" to return to the beginning of the line and overwrite text. When using the print function you additionally have to make sure not to write the ...
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#1: Initial revision
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mr Tsjolder
·
2023-10-07T19:08:42Z (about 1 year ago)
You can use the _carriage return_ control character `"\r"` to return to the beginning of the line and overwrite text.
When using the `print` function you additionally have to make sure not to write the _line feed_ control character (`"\n"`) is not printed.
The easiest way to achieve this is probably to use the `end` keyword argument as follows:
```python
print("this is some text", end="\r")
print("this is a test", end="\r")
print("this is the final overwrite")
```
Note that after printing the last line (which uses `end="\n"` by default), it will no longer be possible to overwrite anything on this line.