On Tue, Dec 22, 2020 at 2:58 PM David Mertz <me...@gnosis.cx> wrote: > Somewhat supporting my concern, I just was surprised to find this: > > % ll `which clear` > -rwxrwxr-x 2 dmertz 14344 Nov 14 17:07 /home/dmertz/miniconda3/bin/clear > % ll /usr/bin/clear > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root 14656 Feb 29 2020 /usr/bin/clear >
that is, indeed surprising. But also maybe an argument for using it -- it can be supplied in by conda (and others) , and thus we don't need to count on the system having it. Though, yeah shelling out to an arbitrary command on the system is a bit scary -- does the Python stdlib currently do that anywhere? In fact: > > % find ~/miniconda3/envs -name 'clear' | xargs wc -c > 14344 /home/dmertz/miniconda3/envs/cleaning3.8/bin/clear > 14344 /home/dmertz/miniconda3/envs/INE/bin/clear > 14344 /home/dmertz/miniconda3/envs/Pearson-ML/bin/clear > 14344 /home/dmertz/miniconda3/envs/cleaning3.9/bin/clear > 8012 /home/dmertz/miniconda3/envs/py3.4/bin/clear > 14288 /home/dmertz/miniconda3/envs/cleaning/bin/clear > 14296 /home/dmertz/miniconda3/envs/pypy/bin/clear > 14344 /home/dmertz/miniconda3/envs/py3.9/bin/clear > 14296 /home/dmertz/miniconda3/envs/py3.8/bin/clear > 8012 /home/dmertz/miniconda3/envs/py3.5/bin/clear > 14296 /home/dmertz/miniconda3/envs/play/bin/clear > 144920 total > > Apparently I have at least 5 different `clear` executables installed on my > system... and I only learned that in the last 2 minutes. > interesting .. any idea what conda package is providing it? -CHB -- Christopher Barker, PhD Python Language Consulting - Teaching - Scientific Software Development - Desktop GUI and Web Development - wxPython, numpy, scipy, Cython
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