[New-bugs-announce] [issue27771] Add a clear screen button or menu choice for IDLE

[Raymond Hettinger]

New submission from Raymond Hettinger:

Learners in my classes commonly request this feature.  Beyond just providing a cosmetic clean-up, this would be useful for recovering from IDLE's catastrophic slow-downs after trying to print a very wide line (i.e. the repr of a string containing a full webpage or text file, see http://bugs.python.org/issue1442493 ).

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assignee: terry.reedy
components: IDLE
keywords: easy
messages: 272826
nosy: rhettinger, terry.reedy
priority: normal
severity: normal
stage: needs patch
status: open
title: Add a clear screen button or menu choice for IDLE
type: enhancement
versions: Python 3.6

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