Python print end="\r" previous line not completely cleared

Question

I want to replace current line in console

from time import sleep

print("loooooooooooooooooooog", end="\r")
sleep(1)
print("short", end="\r")

output

shortoooooooooooooooog

expected

short

Answer 1

for linux we can do

sys.stdout.write('\033[K Text \r')
# or
print('\033[K Text \r')

but it has strange result on windows powershell or cmd, so I use this function instead

from time import sleep

prevline = 0

def writeLine(text):
    global prevline
    current = len(text)
    if current > prevline:
        prevline = current
    print(text.ljust(prevline), end="\r")

writeLine('looooooooooooong')
sleep(1)
writeLine('short')
sleep(1)
writeLine('s')