Clear screen

[Cliff Wells]

On Monday 26 November 2001 16:46, seb wrote:

> If you wanted to make it generic (not that i want to), would os.name
> clarify this:
>
> if os.name == 'NT':
> 	os.system('cls')
>
> or is this a Bad Thing?

How about something like:

import sys

if sys.platform == 'linux2':
    CLEAR_SCREEN = "clear"
elif sys.platform =='win32':  # or whatever this is 
    CLEAR_SCREEN = "cls"

os.system(CLEAR_SCREEN)

This way you avoid a test everytime you want to clear the screen.

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Cliff Wells
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