Displaying Across the Command Prompt

Question

This is what I am trying to do, I am using the command prompt

import time
mess = list("StackOverflow")
def myFunc():
 for i in xrange(1000):
 for k in mess:
 print k
 time.sleep(0.1)
if __name__ == '__main__':
 myFunc()

I am trying to span the display across the cmd prompt, Basically try a matrix effect, how do i go about this..

Take a look at the screenshot: https://i.sstatic.net/zjspP.png

All I want to know is, if its possible to print vertically on all the columns at once, and then the chars dropping down(not horizontal)

• Joel Cornett: "I am trying to span the display across the cmd prompt,"... What do you mean?
• Whiskey: i mean the output shud cover the whole cmd prompt window... the above display on one line, i want the same thing to be repeated accross the window.
• C0deH4cker: You dont need to do list("text")... A string is iterable in python. for char in "Hello!": print(char). If you're trying to print multiple strings: for strng in ("hello", "hi", "how are you"): print(strng).
• Joel Cornett: And what's wrong with what you have now? Is it not working as expected? If so, what is wrong with it?
• Joel Cornett: @Whiskey: Yeah I should have mentioned that. I think you may be SOL. Alternatively, you could try using a GUI package (like Tkinter, or WxPython) to emulate a console window... although at that point it may be getting a little ridiculous.

Answer 1

By default, print includes a newline.
You can specify that it not do so by adding a comma to the end of the print statement.

And then, at least on my system, you run into the problem of buffered output.
So I included a call to flush stdout.

import sys, time
mess = "StackOverflow"
def myFunc():
 for i in xrange(1000):
 for k in mess:
 print k,
 sys.stdout.flush()
 time.sleep(0.1)
if __name__ == '__main__':
 myFunc()

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Equivalent code for Python 3:

import sys, time
mess = "StackOverflow"
def myFunc():
 for i in range(1000):
 for k in mess:
 print(k, end=" ")
 sys.stdout.flush()
 time.sleep(0.1)
if __name__ == '__main__':
 myFunc()

• Whiskey: I am sorry i think m not able to explain clearly.... I want a matrix effect to be created with the string passed... the string is "Stackoverflow", i want s s s s s t t t t t a t t t t c c c c c k k k k k o o o o o ......... and so on.. all at the same time dropping down..accross the window
• Whiskey: Please take a look at this.. i.imgur.com/J4p58.png I want the chars to fall down vertically from top to bottom.. all at once...
• mechanical_meat: OK. Thank you for the clarification. The code I posted produces the expected output. However it does not do so in the order you specify. I am not aware of anything that produces output in such an order.
• Whiskey: Thanks bernie... for trying to help :)

Answer 2

EDIT: If all you want is to print it out like that, then simply do this:

import sys
strng = "S t a c k O v e r f l o w"
for i in range(10000):
 sys.stdout.write(strng)

Have you tried simply doing this?

import time, sys
stackOverflow = "stackoverflow"
for i in range(10000):
 for char in stackOverflow:
 for j in range(3):
 sys.stdout.write(char + " ")
 time.sleep(0.1)
 print("") #Newline