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Matt
Matt

Reputation: 3557

Printing at timed intervals

I know how to utilize time.sleep(), but I was curious how to print something like so:

"hey...(pause)...you...(pause)....there"

where the 'pause' is some time.sleep() interval. I can only print these intervals on separate lines. Is there a way to keep it all on one line?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 349

Answers (2)

mgilson
mgilson

Reputation: 309929

In a print statement in python2.x, you can suppress the newline with a trailing comma:

 print "hey...",
 time.sleep(1)
 print "...you...",
 time.sleep(1)
 print "....there"

On python3.x (or with from __future__ import print_function enabled), you use the end keyword to the print function:

 print("hey...", end="")

etc.

Or, finally, you can always1 write to the sys.stdout stream:

import sys
sys.stdout.write("hey...")
time.sleep(1)
...

The advantage here is that you can flush it explicitly:

sys.stdout.flush()

1technically not always. sys.stdout could be replaced by something else: sys.stdout = 3 -- But making a mess without cleaning up after yourself is terribly rude. However, if you ever find yourself in that situation, sys.__stdout__ is a backup ;-).

Upvotes: 1

Nafiul Islam
Nafiul Islam

Reputation: 82470

In python 2:

print "hey...",
time.sleep(0.5)

In python 3:

print("hey...", end=' ')
time.sleep(0.5)

Upvotes: 3

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