How to overwrite the previous print to stdout in python?

Question

If I had the following code:

for x in range(10):
     print x

I would get the output of

1
2
etc..

What I

Answer 1

I'm a bit surprised nobody is using the backspace character. Here's one that uses it.

import sys
import time

secs = 1000

while True:
    time.sleep(1)  #wait for a full second to pass before assigning a second
    secs += 1  #acknowledge a second has passed

    sys.stdout.write(str(secs))

    for i in range(len(str(secs))):
        sys.stdout.write('\b')