Adam wrote:
> "Adam" <adam at eden.com> wrote in message
> news:42129ea1 at news.comindico.com.au...
> >
> > "BOOGIEMAN" <BOOGIEMANPN at YAHOO.COM> wrote in message
> > news:ldzqyx6byqdw$.wt8smryc0t3.dlg at 40tude.net...
> >> On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 21:22:43 GMT, Adam wrote:
> >>
> >>> Please help me.
> >>> How do you clear the screen and then display a number with an
enlarged
> >>> font
> >>> size (about 300).
> >>> Adam.
> >>
> >> To clear screen in windows :
> >>
> >> #at the beggining of the program
> >> import os
> >>
> >> #when you want to clear the screen
> >> os.system("cls")
> >
> > Thanks
> > I'll try that.
> > Adam.
> >
> Unfortunately that didn't work.
> Here's what I'm trying to do.
> We are running a numbers game at our retirement village and using a
roulette
> wheel to generate the numbers. but this wheel is only about 12 in
diameter
> and is little more than a toy. So we came up with the idea of using a
random
> number generator to generate numbers from 0 to 36 and display them in
large
> figures on my laptop. This is for the benefit of those people who are
hard
> of hearing. They like to see what is happening.
> I was an RPG programmer before retirement but am new to Python. So I
used
> the following code to generate the numbers but I don't know how to
display
> them in large figures (about 3 ins high) or get rid of the idle text.
>
> from random import randint
> rand = randint(0,36)
> print rand
>
> my os = XP
> Can you help?
> Adam.

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