Terry J. Reedy added the comment:
This is essentially a duplicate of your #17632, which proposed Clear Screen +
Restart, which was closed as a duplicate of #6143, which has some patches.
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resolution: -> duplicate
stage: needs patch -> resolved
status: open -> closed
superseder: ->
New submission from Raymond Hettinger:
Learners in my classes commonly request this feature. Beyond just providing a
cosmetic clean-up, this would be useful for recovering from IDLE's catastrophic
slow-downs after trying to print a very wide line (i.e. the repr of a string
containing a full
