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Advanced input in python

I want to receive some information from a user in a next way:
My score is of 10 - is already printed
Between 'is' and 'of' there is an empty place for user's input so he doesn't enter his information at the end( if using simple input() ) but in the middle. While user is entering some information it appears between 'is' and 'of'
Is there any possible way to do it?

One way to get something close to what you want is if you terminal supports ANSI escape codes:
x = input("My score is \x1b[s of 10\x1b[u")
\x1b is the escape character. Neither escape character is dipsplayed on the screen; instead, they introduce byte sequences that the terminal interprets as an instruction of some kind. ESC[s tells the terminal to remember where the cursor is at the moment. ESC[u tells the terminal to move the cursor to the last-remembered position.
(The rectangle is the cursor in an unfocused window.)
Using a library that abstracts away the exact terminal you are using is preferable, but this gives you an idea of how such libraries interact with your terminal: it's all just bytes written to standard output.

If you use console then consider importing curses library. It works on both linux and windows. Download it for windows from http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/#curses
With this library you have a total control over console. Here is the answer to your question.
How to input a word in ncurses screen?

How to type Greek letters with Sikuli

I am using Sikuli to complete some forms and I have to type Greek letters on some of them.
I can define a string with greek letters, for example a='Γεια σου', and even print it using Python 3.5.2 Shell (on Windows). However when I use the type command on SikuliX the program crashes. The paste command does not give error but does not type the correct word either (it types other symbols).
Is there any way to type the correct Greek letters? (couldn't find anything in Google)
Added later: I noticed that typing ALT+(a number 896-919) gives Greek capital letters. I tried this with KeyDown(Key.ALT) on Sikuli but it doesn't work - it types nothing.

As stavros11 already noted, https://answers.launchpad.net/sikuli/+question/260734 holds the solution.
Here is a small sample script:
openApp("notepad.exe")
find("1470067652176.png") #set focus to notepad window
paste(unicode("Δ δ", "utf-8"))
paste(ucode("Δ δ"))

Red lines coming up after strings in SublimeREPL (python)?

In writing a simple python application, I'm printing out some strings to the console in SublimeREPL (for python), using Python 2.7.8 and Sublime 3, 64 bit for Windows 8.1. However, I'm getting some very annoying red lines after each of the strings that I'm printing. Does someone know why this is happening?
I would appreciate any help.
Thanks!

The apostrophe ' character is causing Sublime's syntax highlighting engine to think that you're beginning a single-quoted string. Since ending a line with a string "open" is an error, it is being highlighted with the reddish invalid.illegal scope in your color scheme. It's nothing to worry about, it's just something you'll see happen with SublimeREPL when you have non-closing quotes on a line.
To verify this is the case, try opening a new file in Sublime, setting the syntax to Python, and pasting in the following code:
"This is a valid string"
"This is also valid even though it has a single quote ' char"
"This string is not valid
"""This string is valid, and doesn't have the red line
even though it has a newline, as it's triple-quoted"""
The middle (invalid Python syntax) line will have the red stripe from the end of the word valid to the right side of the window. The others won't.

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

I am trying to update the last line in PyCharm's console. Say, I print a and then I want to change it to c. However, I encounter the following problem. When I run:
print 'a\bc'
it prints
a c
while the desired output (which is also what I see in the Windows console) is:
c
Is there a way to move the cursor back in PyCharm's console? or maybe delete the whole line?

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

I just ran into the same issue in PyCharm (2019.1) and stumbled on this post. It turns out that you can use the \b character if you use the sys.stdout.write function instead of print. I wasn't able to get any of the above examples working within PyCharm using the print function.
Here's how I update the last line of text in my code assuming I don't need more than 100 characters:
# Initialize output line with spaces
sys.stdout.write(' ' * 100)
# Update line in a loop
for k in range(10)
# Generate new line of text
cur_line = 'foo %i' % k
# Remove last 100 characters, write new line and pad with spaces
sys.stdout.write('\b' * 100)
sys.stdout.write(cur_line + ' '*(100 - len(cur_line)))
# ... do other stuff in loop
This should generate "foo 1", then replaced with "foo 2", "foo 3", etc. all on the same line and overwriting the previous output for each string output. I'm using spaces to pad everything because different programs implement the backspace character differently, where sometimes it removes the character, and other times it only moves the cursor backwards and thus still requires new text to overwrite.
I've got to credit the Keras library for this solution, which correctly updates the console output (including PyCharm) during learning. I found that they were using the sys.stdout.write function in their progress bar update code.

PDFtotext - whitespace showing as aacute on commandline

I am extracting text using python from a textfile created from pdf using pdftotext. It is one of 2000 files and in this particular one, a line of keywords ends in EU. The remainder of the line is blank to the naked eye and so is the following line.
The program normally strips off any trailing blanks at the end of a line and ignores the subsequent blank line.
In this instance, it is saving the whitespace which is seen when it is printed out in at textfile between "EU. " and similarly in html (Simile Exhibit).
I also printed to the command line and here I see a string of aacute. [?]
I thought the obvious way to deal with this was to search and replace the accute. I've tried to do that with a compile statement and I've played with permutations of decoding the incoming text.
Oddly though, when I print "\255" I don't get an aacute, I get an o grave.
It seems likely with this odd combination of errors that I have misunderstood something fundamental. Any tips of how to begin unravelling this?
Many thanks.

The first tip is not to print wildly to all possible output mechanisms using various unstated encodings. Find out exactly what you have got. Do this:
print repr(the_line_with_the_problem) # Python 2.x
print(ascii(the_line_with_the_problem)) # Python 3.x
and edit your question and copy/paste the result.
Second tip: When asking for help, give information about your environment:
What version of Python? What version of what operating system?
Also show locale-related info; following example is from my computer running Python 2.7 in a Windows 7 Command Prompt window::
>>> import sys, locale
>>> sys.getdefaultencoding()
'ascii'
>>> sys.stdout.encoding
'cp850'
>>> locale.getdefaultlocale()
('en_AU', 'cp1252')
>>>
Third tip: Don't use your own jargon ... the concepts "Simile Exhibit", "printed to the command line", and "compile statement" need explanation.
What is the relevance of "\255"? Where did you get that from?
Wild guesses while waiting for some facts to emerge:
(1) The offending character is U+00A0 NO-BREAK SPACE aka NBSP which appears in your text as "\xA0" and when sent to stdout in a Western European locale on Windows using a Command Prompt window would be treated as being encoded in cp850 and thus appear as a-acute. How this could be transmogrified into o-grave is a mystery.
(2) "\255" == \xAD implies the offending character is U+00AD SOFT HYPHEN but why this would be seen as o-grave is a mystery, and it's not "whitespace"; it shouldn't be shown at all, and it it is shown it should be as a hyphen/minus-sign, not a space.