How to overwrite the previous print to stdout in python?

Question

If I had the following code:

for x in range(10):
     print x

I would get the output of

1
2
etc..

What I

Answer 1

I had the same question before visiting this thread. For me the sys.stdout.write worked only if I properly flush the buffer i.e.

for x in range(10):
    sys.stdout.write('\r'+str(x))
    sys.stdout.flush()

Without flushing, the result is printed only at the end out the script