Hi, I've written a script which backs up a huge bunch of files, but I don't want the script to output the file names as it does this as it clutters the screen, I only output errors.
So in order to see that the script is working and not stuck, I'd like to implement some kind of progress bar or something, perhaps like the spinning thing that you often see in linux or freebsd consisting of switching / - \ | on the spot to get the appearance of a spinning bar.... I can figure out that the spinning bar is done by switching these four chars but I don't know how they get each char to replace the last one instead of printing them in succession. Does anybody have any good suggestions about what the best way of doing this or any other suggestions for the best ways to show that the script is processing...? Hari -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
