How to remove lines from stdout in Python - in SciTe, Idle, Eclipse or other editor with console

Question

For a standard Python Console window, you can remove the last line with for example sys.stdout.write(\'\\r\'+\' \'*len(line)) as I explained here.

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Answer 1

I am comming to the conclusion that it is not possible, please correct me if I am wrong.

Python Console Window (terminal) does not 'flush' the written line until the next line is passed, as if it keeps a carriage returns like '\n' in memory that can be ignored when writing('\r). The other, more GUI based console windows (IDE's) are obviously implemented differently. So perhaps it could be a feature request to interprete '\r' to erase a previous line in these consoles, so that all consoles share at least a common behaviour to the standard console, only perhaps with additional options.

A solution meanwhile for me as user could be to change the sys.stdout to a new console window, which is questioned before, but answered unsatisfactory... Anybody evolved a bettor opinion to this?

Or use something like the curses module, but than for Windows (is there a 'curses.py' for Windows?), e.g. Console.py.