[Tutor] Clearing the screen?

[Glen Wheeler]

  Don't know if this is the answer your looking for - but you could say
print a whole bunch of empty line...like say

pirnt "\n" * 50

  It sorta clears the screen :)


----- Original Message -----
From: John Precedo <johnp@reportlab.com>
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Sent: Tuesday, February 06, 2001 10:42 PM
Subject: [Tutor] Clearing the screen?


> Hi everyone!
>
> I've been working with Python for a few months now, and I'm
> beginning to get quite good at it. Well, one of my friends
> has asked me a question, and it's bugging the hell out of me
> that I can't answer it! Maybe one of you kind folks could
> help?
>
> Right, say you have a program that does nothing fancy, just
> prints output to STDIO. The output is nothing fancy
> either -just text. But, you want to make each run distinct -
> you don't want junk from one run cluttering up the screen on
> the next run and confusing you.
>
> Is there any simple way of clearing the screen? Something
> like the old Basic CLS command?
>
> (And yes, I know you could probably do it using Tkinter -
> but I'm not going there for something so simple!)
>
> Anyway, thanks in advance for any help.
>
>
>
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