[Python-ideas] Suggestion: Clear screen command for the REPL

[Greg Ewing]

Terry Reedy wrote:
> In the default 
> mode with user code executed in a separate no-window process, there is 
> currently no way for the child process to know the current size of 
> Shell's tk text window in the parent process.

On unix it should be possible to let the child know if it's
connected through a pty rather than a pipe. I don't know
whether Windows has any equivalent notion, though.

-- 
Greg