Print to the same line and not a new line?

It's called the carriage return, or \r

Use

print i/len(some_list)*100," percent complete         \r",

The comma prevents print from adding a newline. (and the spaces will keep the line clear from prior output)

Also, don't forget to terminate with a print "" to get at least a finalizing newline!

From python 3.x you can do:

print('bla bla', end='')

(which can also be used in Python 2.6 or 2.7 by putting from __future__ import print_function at the top of your script/module)

Python console progressbar example:

import time

# status generator
def range_with_status(total):
    """ iterate from 0 to total and show progress in console """
    n=0
    while n<total:
        done = '#'*(n+1)
        todo = '-'*(total-n-1)
        s = '<{0}>'.format(done+todo)
        if not todo:
            s+='\n'        
        if n>0:
            s = '\r'+s
        print(s, end='')
        yield n
        n+=1

# example for use of status generator
for i in range_with_status(10):
    time.sleep(0.1)

For me, what worked was a combo of Remi's and siriusd's answers:

from __future__ import print_function
import sys

print(str, end='\r')
sys.stdout.flush()