How to print something and make it disappear after 5 seconds in Python Pandas?

Question

How can I print something in Python Pandas for some amount of time?

I would like to print a statement and I want the statement to disappear after n seconds? How do I do that in Python Pandas?

Where do you want to print it? To the console? What does it have to do with Pandas? — NotAName, Sep 08 '21 at 23:17

NotAName · Accepted Answer · 2021-09-08T23:30:42.030

You can do this using os module. You'll need to define your own print function using something like:

from os import system
import time

def temp_print(val: str):
    print(val)
    time.sleep(5)
    system('cls')

Replace cls command with clear on Linux and MacOS.

EDIT: This works fine in console, but doesn't work in Jupyter notebooks. I'm not sure exactly how prints are handled there.

You can actually do this in Notebooks as well (ipython notebook clear cell output in code) so just modify the function like so:

import time
from IPython.display import clear_output

def temp_print(val: str):
    print(val)
    time.sleep(5)
    clear_output()

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