Clearing the screen

[Nick Coghlan]

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.

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