Daniel Fetchinson a écrit :
Hi folks,If I'm only interested in linux and windows I know I can do ################################ import os import platform if platform.system( ) == 'Linux': clear = 'clear' else: clear = 'cls' os.system( clear ) ################################ or something equivalent using os.name and friends, but was wondering why there is no platform independent way (i.e. the platform dependence is taken care of by the python stdlib) of clearing a terminal. Sure, there are many different terminals and many different operating systems but in many areas python managed to hide all these complexities behind a well defined API. Why was clearing a terminal left out?
What you're talking about is a shell, not a terminal (a terminal is a physical device). And the shell is not necessarily part of the OS itself (there's no shortage of shells for unices / linux systems), so it doesn't belong to the os or platform modules.
FWIW, I can't tell for sure since I never used any other shell than bash, but I'm not sure your above code is garanteed to work on each and any possible unix shell.
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