Carriage return \r provide incorrect result

Hello Santosh,

In future, please don't post images or screen shots of text, please copy and paste the text of your code.

You have something similar to this:

>>> text = "short line\rvery long line of text"
>>> print(text)
very long line of text


but you haven't told us what you expected to see instead or why you think it is a bug.

It isn't a bug, it is working correctly. Consider this version:


>>> text = "a very long line of text\rshort line"
>>> print(text)
short lineg line of text


Printing a carriage return returns the print location to the start of the line. To start a new line, you need a newline \n.


This is most commonly used for updating the display in place. Try running this code:

import time
def demo():
    for i in range(1, 101):
        print("\rUpdating record %d" % i, end='', flush=True)
        time.sleep(0.1)
    print()