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From: Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Typing letters slowly using sys
Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2013 14:50:01 +0000 (UTC)
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On 2013-04-05, mattgraves7@gmail.com <mattgraves7@gmail.com> wrote:

> dots = ('............')
> for x in dots:
>      sys.stdout.write(x)
>      sys.stdout.flush()
>      time.sleep(0.2)

That works just fine for me using Python 2.4, 2.6, 2.7 and 3.2.

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