how do I delete a sentence after it is displayed in python shell?

Question

I was wondering if I could have some code which would delete a printed sentence in the python shell after a delay. example: print("hello") time.sleep(1) then some kind of code that after the one second delay deletes print("hello") fyi, I use IDLE python 3.7 on windows 10

Answer 1

>>> import time
>>> import sys
>>> def maybe_hi():
...     print('hi', end='')  # Don't print the newline yet
...     sys.stdout.flush()  # Make sure this actually prints now.
...     time.sleep(1)
...     print('\r  ')  # Return the carriage and overwrite with spaces.
...
>>> maybe_hi()

This usually works in terminal applications, but some of them don't handle carriage returns properly. I don't think this works in IDLE, for instance. You could also try \b a few times to back up the cursor one character at a time. For more advanced console shenanigans, check out curses.