On Fri, Oct 16, 2020 at 8:21 PM Rob Cliffe via Python-ideas <python-ideas@python.org> wrote: > > > > 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.
Natural perhaps, but ugly. Much better to reposition the cursor and overwrite the previous text, with "clear to end of line" as required; that way, you avoid flicker. ChrisA _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/NA2NOM3EYQXYRCWN373SH3PV6PARLZ7H/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
