alive-bar spam in Windows 8

Then I try to look at progress bars that I can use with that code:

from alive_progress import alive_bar, show_bars
show_bars()

Instead of replacing old bar with new one so it gives nice effect it just spam new one over console.

[music-cat-bread]

I was doing some resarch and i think only windows 10 support ANSI Escape codes, it looks like windows 8.1 or older version didn’t support it. 😕 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSI_escape_code Section: DOS, OS/2, and Windows

[rsalmei]

This one you send to alive_bar, to make it run animations even when the terminal reports it is not interactive (used on PyCharm’s terminal usually):

with alive_bar(total, force_tty=True) as bar:
    ...

The show_bars and showtime do not have such option, since you should always be in an interactive one. For these in PyCharm, just enable: