Clearing a DOS terminal in a script

Stephen_B stephen at theboulets.net
Thu Dec 13 12:38:26 EST 2007


On Dec 13, 11:21 am, "Chris Mellon" <arka... at gmail.com> wrote:
> It opens "clear" with it's own virtual terminal and clears that
> instead.

Even when I launch the script from a cmd shell with "python
myscript.py"?

> There's an ANSI control code you can use to reset the screen, try printing that.

I googled "<Esc>[2J" as an ascii sequence that it is supposed to clear
the screen. How do I send that?

Stephen



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