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

Suppress the newline and print \r.

print 1,
print '\r2'

or write to stdout:

sys.stdout.write('1')
sys.stdout.write('\r2')