On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 6:31 PM, Paul Moore <p.f.mo...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 19 September 2016 at 03:40, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 12:32 PM, Steven D'Aprano <st...@pearwood.info> >> wrote: >>> (The fallback if all else fails is easy: get the height of the terminal, >>> in lines, and print that many blank lines.) >> >> Assuming you can get the height in lines. Have you tried that in the >> default Windows shell? I don't think tcgetattr works on Windows. > > shutil.get_terminal_size() is available on all platforms. > > I don't think it would be unreasonable to add shutil.clear_terminal() > (at the moment, get_terminal_size is the only "terminal handling" > function in shutil, but it would be the obvious place to add others if > we chose to do so).
Sounds good to me. This is definitely sounding complicated and messy enough to justify (a) writing a function to clear the screen, and (b) testing that function thoroughly as a PyPI module before pushing anything into the stdlib. ChrisA _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list Python-ideas@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
