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A function to overwrite the last line in the terminal/stdout
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overwrite.py
'''
Usage:
previous_text_length = overwrite('text to be written', 0)
previous_text_length = overwrite('next text to be written', previous_text_length)
'''
def overwrite(text, previous):
print('\b' * previous, ' ' * previous, end="\r")
print(text, end="")
sys.stdout.flush()
return len(text)
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