On 13/10/2020 23:35, Guido van Rossum wrote:
Can one of the educators on the list explain why this is such a
commonly required feature? I literally never feel the need to clear my
screen -- but I've seen this requested quite a few times in various
forms, often as a bug report "IDLE does not support CLS". I presume
that this is a common thing in other programming environments for
beginners -- even C++ (given that it was mentioned). Maybe it's a
thing that command-line users on Windows are told to do frequently?
What am I missing that students want to do frequently? Is it a
holdover from the DOS age?
Sometimes I want a program that displays (more than 1 line of) real-time
information in a Windows CMD box and refreshes it every few seconds
(e.g. progress displays, monitoring open
files/locks/connections/downloads etc.). It is natural to clear the
screen and display the updated information.
Rob Cliffe
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