alf enlightened us with:
> I have a command line program which also does some interaction with the
> user using stdin and stdout.
>> My requirement is to print prompt so the user can answer in the same
> line. Unfortunately:
>> print 'enter command:',
>>> does not really work as the comma is carried over to the following lines
> and the indentation gets messed up.
>>> I can use sys.stdout.write('enter command:') instead but kind of do not
> like sys.stdout.write mixed up with print's statements used to display
> other informations.
>>> Is there a pythonic solution for the problem?
Yeah, write a function:
def prompt(label):
'''Prompts the user, returning the typed text'''
sys.stdout.write(label)
return sys.stdin.readline()
Sybren
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