On 19 September 2016 at 03:40, Chris Angelico <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 12:32 PM, Steven D'Aprano <[email protected]> wrote: >> (The fallback if all else fails is easy: get the height of the terminal, >> in lines, and print that many blank lines.) > > Assuming you can get the height in lines. Have you tried that in the > default Windows shell? I don't think tcgetattr works on Windows.
shutil.get_terminal_size() is available on all platforms. I don't think it would be unreasonable to add shutil.clear_terminal() (at the moment, get_terminal_size is the only "terminal handling" function in shutil, but it would be the obvious place to add others if we chose to do so). Paul _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
