On 2011-12-05, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 3:09 AM, Steven D'Aprano ><steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: >> >> Is there a way to erase the character other than backspacing, writing a >> space, then backspacing again? That feels inelegant. > > Emitting "\b \b" is one very common way to do a destructive backspace. > Inelegant? Perhaps, but a common inelegance.
That's pretty much the only way I've seen it done for the past 25 years. What would be more elegant? -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! This PIZZA symbolizes at my COMPLETE EMOTIONAL gmail.com RECOVERY!! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list