Newbie question: DOS console commands?

[Klaus Schilling]

"Phaedrus42" <tcropley at nospam.prodigy.net> writes:

> I'm new to Python this week and was wondering if there are any console
> commands to use on a DOS screen (e.g. ClearScreen, GotoXY, Foreground and
> Background colors, etc.)
> 
> I've got PythonWin running on Windows 95 and am having fun learning the
> language and Tkinter, but I have a need to write a simple DOS interface
> program.  I could pull out my copy of TurboPascal, but I'd like to write it
> in Python to further my education.

Maybe try to use Andrich's Curses Module with M. Hessling's PDcurses?
One prolly would neet to cut out some stuff that isn't supported
by PDcurses.

Klaus Schilling