[Idle-dev] IDLE Clear Screen on Windows OS

[Terry Reedy]

On 11/18/2017 10:25 AM, Niketan Jain wrote:
> I am a new learner to Python, and I have started using IDLE as my first 
> choice. I encountered with one question, for that Google too has no 
> answer, everyone just shouting this and that but no one exact that can 
> help.
> 
> Maybe you are already aware of this query even before I queried.
> Do we have some option to clean the IDLE screen when it reaches the 
> bottom of the screen? On Windows.
> 
> People say print "\n" 50 times or 100 times... import OS... nothing is 
> working. Is there anything that can help and put the ">>>" prompt at the 
> top instead of the screen bottom.

This is https://bugs.python.org/issue6143 on the issue tracker.

I have recently done the conversion mentioned in msg272843, with help 
from another contributor, so this is one of the followup issues I will 
be looking at.

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Terry Jan Reedy