Question

I didn’t actually able to come up with the best suitable title for this. But the problem is: I have this little function, which prints a count up timer on the screen:

def timer(x):
  for i in range(1,x):
    sys.stdout.write("\r%d" % i)
    sys.stdout.flush()
    sleep(1)
    sys.stdout.write('\r  \r')

How can I append the timer at the end of a print statement, like: Now counting.... 3? I tried this:

sys.stdout.write('Now counting..... ')
timer(6)

But it’s printing the timer in the beginning of the line, replacing first two characters. Any help greatly appreciated. Cheers!!

Answer 1

Why not pass your message to the timer function?

def timer(message, x):
  for i in range(1,x):
    sys.stdout.write("\r%s%d" % (message, i))
    sys.stdout.flush()
    sleep(1)
    sys.stdout.write('\r  \r')
...


timer('Now counting..... ', 6)