Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!news.mixmin.net!feeds.phibee-telecom.net!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed1.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!newsgate.cistron.nl!newsgate.news.xs4all.nl!post.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail Return-Path: X-Original-To: python-list@python.org Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org X-Spam-Status: OK 0.003 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 0.99; '*S*': 0.00; 'output': 0.05; 'plenty': 0.07; 'string': 0.09; 'received:67.192': 0.09; 'received:67.192.241': 0.09; 'received:dfw.emailsrvr.com': 0.09; 'skip:/ 10': 0.09; 'python': 0.11; 'comma': 0.16; 'confuse': 0.16; 'count,': 0.16; 'displaying': 0.16; 'increment': 0.16; 'overwriting': 0.16; 'thanks,': 0.17; 'wrote:': 0.18; 'trying': 0.19; 'seems': 0.21; 'print': 0.22; 'header:User-Agent:1': 0.23; 'received:emailsrvr.com': 0.24; 'question': 0.24; 'script': 0.25; 'received:(smtp server)': 0.26; 'second': 0.26; 'asking': 0.27; 'values': 0.27; 'header:In-Reply-To:1': 0.27; 'am,': 0.29; 'statement': 0.30; 'gary': 0.31; 'prints': 0.31; 'alone': 0.33; 'usual': 0.35; 'but': 0.35; 'found.': 0.36; 'hi,': 0.36; 'should': 0.36; 'list': 0.37; 'received:10': 0.37; 'implement': 0.38; 'writes': 0.38; 'to:addr:python-list': 0.38; 'files': 0.38; 'itself': 0.39; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.39; 'how': 0.40; 'new': 0.61; 'finish': 0.65; 'charset:windows-1252': 0.65; 'within': 0.65; 'received:10.10': 0.74; 'ending': 0.78 X-Virus-Scanned: OK X-Sender-Id: gary.herron@islandtraining.com Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2014 13:04:03 -0700 From: Gary Herron User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.1.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: python-list@python.org Subject: Re: Creating a counter References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Message-ID: Lines: 40 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6 X-Trace: 1413403937 news.xs4all.nl 2922 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:58316 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:79180 On 10/15/2014 11:39 AM, Shiva wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to search a string through files in a directory - however while > Python script works on it and writes a log - I want to present the user with > count of number of strings found. So it should increment for each string found. > > How do I implement it? > > If I use a print() within a if condition statement - and execute the script > in terminal - for each find, the print() prints in new line instead of a > constantly incrementing counter. > > Thanks, > Shiva > The question seems confuse the word "increment". If you are asking how to count, plenty of responders have answered count = count+1 and similar. However, the second paragraphs seems to use the word "increment" to mean displaying the counter on a single line overwriting itself instead of a scrolling list of values one-per-line. The solution may depend on what is displaying the value as you write it out, but if it's a terminal/command-prompt /console-window, then you want the write to finish with a carriage-return alone instead of a carriage-return/new-line combination. In Python that is represented with a \r instead of a \n. Python2: print counter, '\r', # The ending comma means do NOT output the usual \n Python3: print(counter, end='\r') Gary Herron