On Sat, Oct 17, 2020 at 5:23 PM Eryk Sun <eryk...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'd prefer shutil.clear_screen(). There's already > shutil.get_terminal_size(). I know there's also > os.get_terminal_size(), but its use isn't encouraged. >
then how about os.clear_terminal() ? after all, this will not clear the "screen", by pretty much any modern definition of screen. I am curious though -- is there any hope of writing even a 90% solution across all platforms that matter? This seems to be very much a function of the terminal program, not the operating system. Sure, there's a manageable set of default terminals across the major OSs (and lInux Desktops), but there are a LOT of others as well, including IDEs, and even the new Terminal in Windows: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/windows-terminal/9n0dx20hk701?rtc=1&activetab=pivot:overviewtab (which I haven't tried yet -- no handy Windows Box at the moment) Anyway -- this is an honest question -- I have no idea if there is enough standardization to make it possible, but maybe someone on this thread does. -CHB PS: I use the built in Terminal app on OS-X: cmd+K clears the screen and scrollback buffer. clearclears the screen, but not the scrollback buffer. I found this on SO: https://superuser.com/questions/243693/how-to-reset-teminal-under-mac-os-x-programmatically which involved calling osascript -- I tried it, and got a dialog asking for permission for Terminal to access System Events, and then it failed with an error: System Events got an error: osascript is not allowed to send keystrokes. I only spent five minutes on it -- but not straightforward. -- Christopher Barker, PhD Python Language Consulting - Teaching - Scientific Software Development - Desktop GUI and Web Development - wxPython, numpy, scipy, Cython
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