sys.stdout .>_<.

[Leon]

import os,sys
a = os.fdopen(sys.stdout.fileno(),"w")
b = os.fdopen(sys.stdout.fileno(),"w")
a.write("test1 ")
b.write("test2 ")

stdout result is

test1 test2

but use general file object such as...

a = open("test.txt","w")
b = open("test.txt","w")
a.write("test1")
b.write("test2")

the "test.txt" file content is

test2

how to do this result to sys.stdout

[Pierre Barbier de Reuille]

It's not possible !

stdout is usually a pipe ... and you cannot go back in a pipe ...
Try with any pipe you should have the same result.

The only way toi achieve this is to assume an ANSI terminal and to use
ANSI codes to go back ("\r" to go at the beginning of the line "^h" to
go back one char)

Leon a écrit :

import os,sys
a = os.fdopen(sys.stdout.fileno(),"w")
b = os.fdopen(sys.stdout.fileno(),"w")
a.write("test1 ")
b.write("test2 ")

stdout result is

test1 test2

but use general file object such as...

a = open("test.txt","w")
b = open("test.txt","w")
a.write("test1")
b.write("test2")

the "test.txt" file content is

test2

how to do this result to sys.stdout

[Mike Meyer]

[Format repaired]

Pierre Barbier de Reuille <pi************@cirad.fr> writes:

Leon a écrit :

import os,sys
a = os.fdopen(sys.stdout.fileno(),"w")
b = os.fdopen(sys.stdout.fileno(),"w")
a.write("test1 ")
b.write("test2 ")
stdout result is
test1 test2
but use general file object such as...
a = open("test.txt","w")
b = open("test.txt","w")
a.write("test1")
b.write("test2")
the "test.txt" file content is
test2
how to do this result to sys.stdout It's not possible !

Yup.
stdout is usually a pipe ... and you cannot go back in a pipe ...
Try with any pipe you should have the same result.
Actually, his second example didn't "go back". The two file pointers
started at the beginning of the file. The first write writes "test1"
into the file starting at the beginning. The second write writes
"test2" at the file starting at the beginning, overwriting the results
of the first write.
The only way toi achieve this is to assume an ANSI terminal and to use
ANSI codes to go back ("\r" to go at the beginning of the line "^h" to
go back one char)

The other altnerative is the curses module.

<mike
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