beertje wrote:
> 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.
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
>>> for i in range(10):
... 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
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