Hari Sekhon wrote: > 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
This also is shown in Python Cookbook: http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/299207 Larry Bates -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
