Hello,
I searched and found several possible solutions to clear the screen in
the CPython REPL, but all are, in my opinion, complex for a newbie.
The existence of a clear command would be a simple and obvious,
therefore accessible to newbies.
Best regards,
JM
On 17-09-2016 14:34, eryk sun wrote:
On Sat, Sep 17, 2016 at 11:11 AM, João Matos <jcrma...@gmail.com> wrote:
On 17-09-2016 12:07, Oleg Broytman wrote:
Pressing [Ctrl]+[L] works for me.
Doesn't work on Windows.
Windows 10 added VT100 support to the console, so you can create a
little cls() function to clear the screen:
cls = lambda: print('\x1b[1J', end='', flush=True)
VT100 support isn't enabled by default. However, cmd.exe always
enables this mode. So run doskey.exe via os.system to enable VT100
mode while setting a convenient "cls" alias:
import os
os.system(r'doskey /exename=python.exe cls=cls()')
This alias substitutes "cls()" for "cls" at the beginning of a line.
This saves you from having to type "()" all the time. The alias isn't
active for other programs; e.g. if you execute
subprocess.call('powershell'), then "cls" will be the PowerShell alias
for Clear-Host.
You can also use ctypes instead of os.system and doskey.exe:
import ctypes
kernel32 = ctypes.WinDLL('kernel32')
hStdOut = kernel32.GetStdHandle(-11)
# enable VT100 mode
mode = (ctypes.c_uint * 1)()
kernel32.GetConsoleMode(hStdOut, mode)
kernel32.SetConsoleMode(hStdOut, mode[0] | 4)
# define a cls() function and set a console alias
cls = lambda: print('\x1b[1J', end='', flush=True)
kernel32.AddConsoleAliasW('cls', 'cls()', 'python.exe')
For older versions of Windows you can use ANSICON or ConEmu, which use
DLL injection to extend the console API. Python's colorama and
pyreadline modules should also work for this.
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