Simon Gerber wrote:
> I got it working with
> 
> while ip_addr == "":
>         sys.stdout.writelines("...")
>         sys.stdout.flush()
>         time.sleep(0.5)
>         ip_addr = get_addr()
>         if ip_addr != '':
>           ...

You should use sys.stdout.write(), not writelines(). writelines() expects a 
sequence of strings so what you wrote is roughly equivalent to
  sys.stdout.write(".")
  sys.stdout.write(".")
  sys.stdout.write(".")

Kent

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