> > On 2020-12-22 14:01, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > > It seems to me that the primary use for this will be in the interactive > > interpreter. People are used to something like "cls" or "clear" from > > various shells. Using it in scripting is, I think, a secondary use-case. > ' I disagree. yes, I want to clear the screen a lot during interactive use, but I'd rather do that with a keystroke (cmd+K on the Mac) -- and indeed, do that with iPython all the time, even though iPython has the command built in.
So I think the reason to have it in the std lib is for scripting, and I think putting it in os or sys is just fine. -CHB > > Given that, I think that like other conveniences for interactive use > > like `help`, it should be available without an import. > > > Agreed in general, however Ctrl+L is mostly available for this purpose. > There > are two major exceptions unfortunately. > > One is when using cmd.exe. However, every other combination of shell and > console/terminal on Windows does support it. Not to mention everywhere > Unix has > an influence. > > Second is the Python REPL console on Windows. I'm guessing it wouldn't be > too > hard to add Ctrl+L handling to it. Would be useful I think, regardless of > some > of the other decisions that need to be made. > > -Mike > _______________________________________________ > Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org > To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ > Message archived at > https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/FU7MZEY6NPUN54W7QMFNABUQB6LSPP2Z/ > Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/ > -- Christopher Barker, PhD Python Language Consulting - Teaching - Scientific Software Development - Desktop GUI and Web Development - wxPython, numpy, scipy, Cython
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