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

[Chris Angelico]

On Thu, Sep 29, 2016 at 12:04 PM, Steven D'Aprano <steve at pearwood.info> wrote:
> (Also, it seems a shame that Ctrl-D is EOF in Linux and Mac, but Windows
> is Ctrl-Z + Return. Can that be standardized to Ctrl-D everywhere?)

Sadly, I suspect not. If you're running in the default Windows
terminal emulator (the one a normal user will get by invoking
cmd.exe), you're running under a lot of restrictions, and I believe
one of them is that you can't get Ctrl-D without an enter.

But it would be very nice to support both.

ChrisA