Spinner program exectues in Pycharm IDE but not in zsh terminal-CodePudding

I'm using Pycharm Community Edition 2022 for running this simple Python program.

This spinner program is supposed to rotate the line in place for a number of 50 times with a delay so it's smoothes out the movement.

This is the working code:

#spinner.py

import time


spinner_items = "\\|/—"


for _ in range(50):
    for item in spinner_items:
        print(item, end = "")
        time.sleep(0.2)
        print('\b', end="")`

My problem is when I try to run the program in the terminal with the command python spinner.py it doesn't output anything.

PyCharm Run result, how it should output:

Terminal command result (why is it stuck?):

Why doesn't the terminal output the same as the Pycharm IDE? What could there be done so the terminal has the same output as the IDE?

I expected that the PyCharm IDE and the terminal output to be the same, being that it's the same program.

CodePudding user response：

Use flush=True

 import time

 spinner_items = "\\|/—"

 for _ in range(50):
     for item in spinner_items:
         print(item, end="", flush=True)
         time.sleep(0.2)
         print('\b', end="", flush=True)

Use -u option, python -u spinner.py