Clearing the screen

[Steven Bethard]

Scott David Daniels wrote:
> Nick Coghlan wrote:
> 
>> Jeff Epler wrote:
>>
>>> I don't know about idle, but the "real" python supports the
>>> PYTHONSTARTUP environment variable.
>>
>>
>> I just tried it - IDLE ignores PYTHONSTARTUP, as does PythonWin (I 
>> just started using PYTHONSTARTUP to switch the standard prompt from 
>> '>>>' to "Py>').
>>
>> I believe PYTHONSTARTUP is handled by CPython's main function before 
>> it gets to the interactive interpreter.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Nick.
>>
>  From the Fine Manual:
>     Command line usage
>     idle.py [-c command] [-d] [-e] [-s] [-t title] [arg] ...
> 
>     -c command  run this command
>     -d          enable debugger
>     -e          edit mode; arguments are files to be edited
>     -s          run $IDLESTARTUP or $PYTHONSTARTUP first
>     -t title    set title of shell window
> 
> On Windows, it is likely to be idle.pyw.  So, add a -s to the command
> line used in the shortcut to start Idle.

Anyone know if there is a similar option to PythonWin?  I looked around 
a bit, but couldn't find one...

Steve