Backspace behavior in Python statement, what is correct behavior of printing a '\b' in code? [duplicate]

Answer 1

As Alexis said in the comment, it moves the cursor back (to the left by one character). Then when you print, it overwrites the character (applying only to the current line of text)

>>> print 'abc\b'
abc
>>> print 'abc\b\b\b'
abc
>>> print 'abc\b1'
ab1
>>> print 'abc\b\b\b123'
123

Nothing Python specific, as evidenced by "backspace character weirdness"