It's not uncommon for C++ tutorials etc, to refer to using:
system("cls");
to clear the screen (in windows console environments only). I assume this
is what ankith was talking about.
The python equivalent would be:
import os
os.system('cls')
or in the repl:
_ = os.system('cls').
Note, ipython (on linux only, it seems) adds a built-in alias called
`clear` which does the same thing.
Unfortunately, implementing this behaviour in a reliable, cross-platform
way is reasonably hard. Python has the standard library module: curses,
which can be made to provide similar behaviour (with some side-effects) but
this doesn't work in the traditional windows console. There may be some
other functionality buried somewhere in the stdlib that does this?
Some third party libraries do a reasonable job at providing this feature,
and it feels like 3rd party libraries are the correct place for this
For example, the pypi `console` library provides a method:
`console.sc.reset()` that behaves similarly to `CLS` on windows and also
appears to be fairly reliable cross-platform.
Steve
On Tue, Oct 13, 2020 at 1:41 PM Serhiy Storchaka <storch...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> 13.10.20 09:07, ankith abhayan пише:
> > I would like to request a new feature that allows you to clear the
> > console screen.
> > Like in c++, the CLS function
>
> There is no the CLS function in C++.
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