Clear the terminal window.

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Gribouillis Gribouillis is offline Offline Oct 26th, 2009, 1:14 pm |
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Printing a convenient ansi escape sequence clears the terminal (if you're running python from a terminal). Similar techniques could be used to print in colors.
Last edited by Gribouillis; Oct 26th, 2009 at 1:32 pm.
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  1. def clear():
  2.   print("\x1B[2J")
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  4. clear()
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vegaseat vegaseat is offline Offline | Oct 26th, 2009
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Linux only?
 
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Gribouillis Gribouillis is offline Offline | Oct 26th, 2009
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No, with ANSI.SYS, it should work on windows too.
 
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Gribouillis Gribouillis is offline Offline | Oct 27th, 2009
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Correction: you were right, I couldn't make it work on windows. The ANSI.SYS driver works only with very old versions of windows. You would need a terminal emulator similar to the linux console. There is a module console for windows, with slightly different control sequences. See if it works with your versions of windows/python.

So let's say it's linux only...
Last edited by Gribouillis; Oct 27th, 2009 at 12:02 pm.
 
 

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