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

Try this:

import time
while True:
    print("Hi ", end="\r")
    time.sleep(1)
    print("Bob", end="\r")
    time.sleep(1)

It worked for me. The end="\r" part is making it overwrite the previous line.

WARNING!

If you print out hi, then print out hello using \r, you’ll get hillo because the output wrote over the previous two letters. If you print out hi with spaces (which don’t show up here), then it will output hi. To fix this, print out spaces using \r.