Mailman 3 built in to clear terminal - Python-ideas

20 Dec 2020

      Sorry -- I can't find the thread, but there was a discussion on this list
about whether there should be a built in for clearing the terminal screen.

I'm was on the fence about it --  but one more data point:

One of my beginning Python students just submitted code with this in it:

def clear_screen():
    '''
    Function: clear_screen() (Windows/Unix)
        Input:  None
        Process: Clear Screen
        Output: None
    '''
    if (opSys == 'Windows'):
        os.system('cls')
    else:
        os.system('clear')
    return None

Which makes me think -- yes, it would be nice to have that available in the
standard lib somewhere.

-CHB

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built in to clear terminal

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