Noobish Python Question

[abeisgreat]

So you know when your downloading a .deb from a repo, and it has the bar in the terminal that keeps updating with the percent downloaded? Yes well I want to do something like that. So i was thinking, I either need a) a way to keep updating that bottom bar, or b) a way to delete the previous line and replace it, making the effect that the one line is changing, this is a bit hard to explain but, does anyone know how to do this in a py script?

[pieoncar]

I searched for python curses progress bar in google, and this was the first result: http://code.activestate.com/recipes/168639/ - You'll probably want to check the first few comments there too.

Curses or ncurses is the interface used in terminals to "draw" fancy things beyond simply printing text to new lines.

[snova]

The '\r' character may be of use. It returns the cursor to the beginning of the line so you can overwrite it again when updating.

ncurses might be overly complicated for a simple progress bar...

[abeisgreat]

The '\r' character may be of use. It returns the cursor to the beginning of the line so you can overwrite it again when updating.

ncurses might be overly complicated for a simple progress bar...

I tried using \r in several ways but I couldnt get it to function properly

EDIT: nevermind, you have to call it like

print 'hello world', '\r'

not just

print 'hello world\r'

like I was trying