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

Another answer that I'm using on 2.7 where I'm just printing out a "." every time a loop runs (to indicate to the user that things are still running) is this:

print "\b.",

It prints the "." characters without spaces between each. It looks a little better and works pretty well. The \b is a backspace character for those wondering.