Deleting already printed in Python

Question

For practice, I'm trying to do some stuff in Python. I've decided to make a simple hangman game - I'm not making a GUI. The game would start with a simple input(). Now, I'd like next line to, beside asking for input, to delete the hidden word. I've tried using \b (backspace character), but it's not working. Something like:

word = input("Your word: ")
for i in range(len(word) + 12):
    print("\b")

Now, printing the backlash character is supposed to delete the input and "Your word", but it isn't doing anything. If I do this in IDLE I get squares, and I get nothing if I open it by clicking.

How to accomplish this? I'm afraid I wasn't too clear with my question, but I hope you'll see what I meant. :)

Answer 1

\b does not erase the character before the cursor, it simply moves the cursor left one column. If you want text entry without echoing the characters then look at getpass.