On Thu, 15 Sep 2005 21:18:33 -0700, A. L. wrote: > In Python interactive mode, is there some function acting like 'clear' > command in bash? Could somebody here give some advice? > > Thanks in advance.
Something like this may help: def clearscreen(numlines=100): """Clear the console. numlines is an optional argument used only as a fall-back. """ import os if os.name == "posix": # Unix/Linux/MacOS/BSD/etc os.system('clear') elif os.name in ("nt", "dos", "ce"): # DOS/Windows os.system('CLS') else: # Fallback for other operating systems. print '\n' * numlines -- Steven. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list