[Tutor] re clear screen

[Magnus Lycka]

At 00:10 2002-11-12 +0900, kevin parks wrote:
>>import os
>>os.system("cls")
>>
>>UNIX:
>>os.system("clear")
>
>Wow on M$ it's cls and on UNIX clear? How unbelievably unpythonesque.

Operating system commands are rarely Pythonesque.
It is very pythonesque to read the library module
reference though. ;)

If something is inside quotes it's a clear hint
that it's not handled by python itself...

Regarding user interfaces, the native things in
python are basically:
  sys.stdin, sys.stdout, sys.stderr, print, input
  and raw_input

Anything beyond that will depend on some external
library. AFAIK, there is no platform independent
character-based user interface. If you want cross
platform UIs beyond what pipes, print and raw_input
provides, use a GUI like Tkinter.


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