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

One more answer based on the prevous answers.

Content of pbar.py: import sys, shutil, datetime

last_line_is_progress_bar=False


def print2(print_string):
    global last_line_is_progress_bar
    if last_line_is_progress_bar:
        _delete_last_line()
        last_line_is_progress_bar=False
    print(print_string)


def _delete_last_line():
    sys.stdout.write('\b\b\r')
    sys.stdout.write(' '*shutil.get_terminal_size((80, 20)).columns)
    sys.stdout.write('\b\r')
    sys.stdout.flush()


def update_progress_bar(current, total):
    global last_line_is_progress_bar
    last_line_is_progress_bar=True

    completed_percentage = round(current / (total / 100))
    current_time=datetime.datetime.now().strftime('%m/%d/%Y-%H:%M:%S')
    overhead_length = len(current_time+str(current))+13
    console_width = shutil.get_terminal_size((80, 20)).columns - overhead_length
    completed_width = round(console_width * completed_percentage / 100)
    not_completed_width = console_width - completed_width
    sys.stdout.write('\b\b\r')

    sys.stdout.write('{}> [{}{}] {} - {}% '.format(current_time, '#'*completed_width, '-'*not_completed_width, current,
                                        completed_percentage),)
    sys.stdout.flush()

Usage of script:

import time
from pbar import update_progress_bar, print2


update_progress_bar(45,200)
time.sleep(1)

update_progress_bar(70,200)
time.sleep(1)

update_progress_bar(100,200)
time.sleep(1)


update_progress_bar(130,200)
time.sleep(1)

print2('some text that will re-place current progress bar')
time.sleep(1)

update_progress_bar(111,200)
time.sleep(1)

print('\n') # without \n next line will be attached to the end of the progress bar
print('built in print function that will push progress bar one line up')
time.sleep(1)

update_progress_bar(111,200)
time.sleep(1)