How can I get the cursor's position in an ANSI terminal?

Question

I want to get the cursor\'s position in a terminal window. I know I can echo -e \"\\033[6n\" and read the output -s silently as in thi

Answer 1

Here we go -you can simply read sys.stdout yourself to get the value. I found the answer in a question just like yours, but for one trying to do that from a C program:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/programming-9/get-cursor-position-in-c-947833/

So, when I tried something along that from the Python interactive terminal:

>>> import sys
>>> sys.stdout.write("\x1b[6n");a=sys.stdin.read(10)                                                                                                                                                     
]^[[46;1R                                                                                                                                                                                                
>>>                                                                                                                                                                                                      
>>> a                                                                                                                                                                                                    
'\x1b[46;1R'                                                                                                                                                                                               
>>> sys.stdin.isatty()                                                                                                                                                                                   
True   

You will have to use other ANSI tricks/position/reprint to avoid the output actually showing up on the terminal, and prevent blocking on stdin read - but I think it can be done with some trial and error.