How to output message in Python and then delete it in output [duplicate]

Question

so i want to output '|' and the remove it and paste '/' instead (in one line) so it will make animation.

import time


animation = '|'
print(animation)

time.sleep(0.5)

animation = animation.replace('|', '/')
print(animation)

i was thinking more this stackoverflow.com/questions/18937058/clear-screen-in-shell/… — Chris_Rands
– Chris_Rands, Commented Nov 25, 2019 at 14:48

VisioN · Accepted Answer · 2019-11-25 14:56:32Z

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In a nutshell, you need to output \r character, which is a carriage RETURN command. It will put the caret to the start of the line in the console. Next output will basically rewrite the line contents.

import sys, time

i = 0
while True:
    sys.stdout.write('/-\\|'[i%4])
    time.sleep(0.5)
    sys.stdout.write('\r')
    i += 1

edited Nov 25, 2019 at 14:56

answered Nov 25, 2019 at 14:47

VisioN

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