Print in one line dynamically

Question

I would like to make several statements that give standard output without seeing newlines in between statements.

Specifically, suppose I have:

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Answer 1

Use print item, to make the print statement omit the newline.

In Python 3, it's print(item, end=" ").

If you want every number to display in the same place, use for example (Python 2.7):

to = 20
digits = len(str(to - 1))
delete = "\b" * (digits + 1)
for i in range(to):
    print "{0}{1:{2}}".format(delete, i, digits),

In Python 3, it's a bit more complicated; here you need to flush sys.stdout or it won't print anything until after the loop has finished:

import sys
to = 20
digits = len(str(to - 1))
delete = "\b" * (digits)
for i in range(to):
   print("{0}{1:{2}}".format(delete, i, digits), end="")
   sys.stdout.flush()