'Waiting' animation in command prompt (Python)

Question

I have a Python script which takes a long time to run. I\'d quite like to have the command line output to have a little \'waiting\' animation, much like the swirly circle we

Answer 1

Just another pretty variant

import time

bar = [
    " [=     ]",
    " [ =    ]",
    " [  =   ]",
    " [   =  ]",
    " [    = ]",
    " [     =]",
    " [    = ]",
    " [   =  ]",
    " [  =   ]",
    " [ =    ]",
]
i = 0

while True:
    print(bar[i % len(bar)], end="\r")
    time.sleep(.2)
    i += 1