On 19 September 2016 at 13:10, Paul Moore <p.f.mo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > For this particular suggestion, though, I don't think that's the case. > I think it's going to either be something that's accepted into the > stdlib, or something that's rejected as too platform-specific or messy > to standardise, and people should roll their own implementation.
Note, by the way, that in the form of a Python function, this capability is already available in lots of places - colorama and click include it, for a start. And even the stdlib has a version in the curses module (albeit not available on Windows). In the light of this, there seems little reason to water down this proposal to "provide a clear screen function in the stdlib". Taken in its original form of "add a command to the REPL to clear the screen", the main issue is that the standard Python REPL simply doesn't have a concept of "REPL commands", so there's nowhere really to add that functionality without a relatively major overhaul. People who want a richer REPL can look at other options like IDLE, or IPython/Jupyter. By the way - if you're on a system with readline support included with Python, GNU readline apparently has a binding for clear-screen (CTRL-L) so you may well have this functionality already (I don;'t use Unix or readline, so I can't comment for sure). So the proposal becomes limited to: """ Add a capability to the standard REPL to recognise and support "commands" (as distinct from executable Python code) and provide a "clear screen" command. """ This feature is only needed for users of the standard Python REPL, on systems without readline support (i.e. Windows). I don't think that's a significant enough benefit to warrant the change (even if we take into account the potential opportunity for additional commands that we'd get from adding command support to the REPL). Paul _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list Python-ideas@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
