heres the shell i forgot to show PythonWin 2.4 (#60, Nov 30 2004, 11:49:19) [MSC v.1310 32 bit (Intel)] on win32. Portions Copyright 1994-2004 Mark Hammond (mhammond at skippinet.com.au) - see 'Help/About PythonWin' for further copyright information. >>> clear.cls() [40 more lines of "\n"] >>> -- cheers, Ishwor Gurung