On Fri, 16 Oct 2020 at 20:43, Jonathan Crall <erote...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> @Chris Angelico If you are more application focused, or trying to get a
> scientific result, and you don't care too much about the reusability of your
> scripts, then I can see the validity of this use case. But I would not want
> to install a module on pypi that made use of this. From a software
> perspective this is 100% bad practice, but from a practitioner perspective
> --- and there are a lot of practitioners that only use Python as a tool (like
> a DSL) --- I can see wanting it.
>
> So, that's the question: does the Python stdlib want to let you do this? Will
> the number of software engineers who use this incorrectly outweigh the number
> of people who seem to want this for a valid reason? I'm not sure what the
> answer is.
>
> FWIW executing `print('\x1b[H\x1b[2J\x1b[3J')` in my IPython terminal cleared
> the screen.
Why would you want to put this in your script, so that you have no
choice (short of editing the script) as to whether it happens? Surely
better to clear your terminal from the command prompt *before* running
your script? Yes, you can forget, but I'd rather forget occasionally
than lose essential data because I ran a script that I'd forgotten has
an os.clear() at the top...
I suspect Guido's right, it's asked for often enough, and fiddly
enough to write, that adding it is a net gain. But I'd be very
unlikely to use it myself, and I'd strongly advise people against
using it if asked.
Paul
_______________________________________________
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/6KBXBPS2SVVYZSL6FSM24YLHX6MGN2Y6/
Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
