[Tutor] Re: CLS? (Joseph Quigley)

[Andrei]

Joseph Quigley wrote on Thu, 21 Apr 2005 18:15:51 -0600:
> In QBASIC there was the command "CLS"
> this wiped the screen and "started printing letters to the screen at the 
> top " of the console window.

With a quick Google, it does indeed appear to be in the cookbook:
http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/65257
(look under >>> Platform Testing <<<).

For Windows this is:

import os
os.system('cls')

It's actually just sending the cls command to the dos box it's running on,
it's not built-in (hence the need for platform-specific code in the recipe
above).

> Is there any such command in Python? Would a Python cook book have this (I 
> have pay-by-the-minute dial-up Internet so I can't go online for long)?

I'm tempted to say that if you need cls, you've got the wrong interface for
your application :). Command line apps which wipe out the command line
history are bad. You might prefer making a GUI or a web application
instead.

-- 
Yours,

Andrei

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