'\b' doesn't print backspace in PyCharm console

This is not a bug, this is a limitation of the interactive console found both in PyCharm, and in the IDLE shell.

When using the command prompt of windows, or a linux shell - the \b character is interpreted as a backspace and implemented as it is being parsed - However, in the interactive console of PyCharm and IDLE the \b character and many others are disabled, and instead you simply get the ASCII representation of the character (a white space in most cases).

It's a known bug: http://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/PY-11300

If you care about this, please get an account on the bug tracker and upload the bug to give it more attention.

The \r works. I know this is ASCII Carriage Return, but i use this as a workaround

print("\ra")
print("\rc")

will yield in c in the console

By the way, backspace is a ASCII Character