Adapting ‘print’ call to Python 2.4.3

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I tested the following code with an online Python 3.x compiler but want a similar one to work on my 2.4.3 compiler:

import sys, time print('I am about to show you something _\b', end='') sys.stdout.flush() # Make sure above string gets printed in time time.sleep(2) print('THIS!')

How can I make a similar code work for Python 2.4.3?

May I suggest if you are learning Python, you should upgrade to Python3. Python2 will be at end-of-life soon — mattjegan
– mattjegan, Commented Jan 12, 2018 at 3:10
i have tried other versions of this code to try to make it work but it generates a syntax error. — smart
– smart, Commented Jan 12, 2018 at 3:11
Do you really need to keep using Python 2.4? That release is coming up on 12 years old, and has been unsupported for a very long time. It has security bugs that will not be fixed (they are fixed in newer releases). — Blckknght
– Blckknght, Commented Jan 12, 2018 at 3:14

Mike Müller · Accepted Answer · 2018-01-12 03:18:28Z

Use the print statement with trailing comma to suppress the newline:

import time import sys print 'I am about to show you something _\b', sys.stdout.flush() # Make sure above string gets printed in time time.sleep(2) print 'THIS!'

Alternatively, write to sys.stdout directly:

sys.stdout.write('I am about to show you something ') sys.stdout.flush() # Make sure above string gets printed in time time.sleep(2) sys.stdout.write('THIS!')

This works in Python 2 and 3 alike.

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