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Danny Sedlov
Danny Sedlov

Reputation: 33

How to print to one line from multiple lines

I am working on a text based game but am very new to programming, I want to do something like

from time import sleep
print('first part' sleep(1)'second part')

but that obviously does not work so I was wondering if I could print one part of the line, wait, and then print the second part to the same line but from different lines so that it would work

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2090

Answers (2)

Hazim Sager
Hazim Sager

Reputation: 82

Quick Function to do this. You just have to put your strings into a list.

import time

def PrintWithPauses(lists):
    for x in range(len(lists)):
        if x == len(lists):
            print(lists[x])
        else:
            print(lists[x], end='', flush=True)
            time.sleep(1)

So if you had a list like this:

myList = ['hello world! ', 'StackOverflow ', 'bob ']

and ran:

PrintWithPauses(myList)

Your output would be:

hello world!

Pause 1 second

hello world! StackOverflow

Pause 1 second

hello world! StackOverflow bob

Upvotes: 0

MattDMo
MattDMo

Reputation: 102842

Sure, this is possible, you'll just have to send some options to print():

from time import sleep
print("This is the first part. ", end='', flush=True)
sleep(1)
print("This is the second part.")

end='' means that the print function doesn't append a newline \n onto the end of what it's printing. flush=True means the buffer is flushed right away, so it's immediately printed. Experiment with removing that part and see what happens.

Upvotes: 4

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