Need help with Python

[AllaboutPC]

(windows 7) (python 2.7.3)

(really new to python here)

I was wondering how I would make text appear as if it was typed without having to do this:

 

    import time

    time.sleep (0.05)

    print ('I'),

    time.sleep (0.05)

    print (' '),

    time.sleep (0.05)

    print ('h'),

    time.sleep (0.05)

    print ('a'),

    time.sleep (0.05)

    print ('v'),

    time.sleep (0.05)

    print ('e'),

    time.sleep (0.05)

    print (' '),

    time.sleep (0.05)

    print ('b'),

    time.sleep (0.05)

    print ('e'),

    time.sleep (0.05)

    print ('e'),

    time.sleep (0.05)

    print ('n'),

    time.sleep (0.05)

    print (' '),

    time.sleep (0.05)

    print ('w'),

    time.sleep (0.05)

    print ('a'),

    time.sleep (0.05)

    print ('i'),

    time.sleep (0.05)

    print ('t'),

    time.sleep (0.05)

    print ('i'),

    time.sleep (0.05)

    print ('n'),

    time.sleep (0.05)

    print ('g'),

    time.sleep (0.05)

    print (' '),

    time.sleep (0.05)

    print ('f'),

    time.sleep (0.05)

    print ('o'),

    time.sleep (0.05)

    print ('r'),

    time.sleep (0.05)

    print (' '),

    time.sleep (0.05)

    print ('y'),

    time.sleep (0.05)

    print ('o'),

    time.sleep (0.05)

    print ('u'),

    time.sleep (0.05)

    print ('.'),

[MikeD]

The very first thing that comes to mind is create a string and do a loop printing each character and then pausing for that time

[chromeboy42]

I did something like this a long time ago on a older pc. I'll go look and see if I can find the file

 

EDIT: I'm sorry I can't find the file, but what MikeD suggested should work

[random314]

You want to do something like this, assuming you want to print to a single line

import timeimport sysfor currentChar in "I have been waiting for you":    sys.stdout.write(currentChar)    time.sleep(.05)    sys.stdout.flush()

[ZEN]

To make it look more realistic, you could also randomize the sleep-time in between characters:

import timefrom random import randomtext = list("I have been waiting for you")std_slp = 0.2for char in text:    print(char, end="")    var = random()    time.sleep(std_slp*var)

This is in Python 3.3 as I don't know 2.7 so you would have to translate that.

[AllaboutPC]

Thanks! I ended up using a for loop like this:

 

    greet = ('I have been waiting for you.')

    for x in greet:

        print x,

        time.sleep(0.045)

[aikoels]

Can't seem to quote

 

Anyway, the issue with the way you are doing it @AllaboutPC is it will print 'I  h a v e  b e e n...' not 'I have been', I would go with the first way posted, since that will print it correctly