Python program to print over the same line
By Lenin Mishra
Let’s say you have a bunch of print statements.
Code
print("Pylenin")
print("loves")
print("Python")
The output will look like below.
Output
Pylenin
loves
Python
However, if you want to print over and over the same line in Python, you have to use the carriage return \r
symbol.
Code
print("Pylenin", end="\r")
print("loves", end="\r")
print("Python")
Output
Pythonn
Even though the first 2 print statements are executed, the carriage returns makes the next stdout line start at the beginning of the current line.
Also, carriage return will only replace the number of characters contained in the print statement. So you have an extra n at the end.
Learn about end
, sep
and flush
parameters of print()
function here.
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