On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 10:50 AM, Ismael Farfán <sulfur...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2012/9/21 Peter Otten <__pete...@web.de>: >> echo.hp...@gmail.com wrote: >> >> print "\x1b[2J\x1b[0;0H" # optional > > Nice code : ) > > Could you dissect that weird string for us? > > It isn't returning the cursor to (0,0), it's just like executing > clear(1), and looks like those line coloring scape sequences for bash.
They're called "ANSI escape codes". :-) CSI 2J clears the screen. CSI 0;0H means "move the cursor to row 0, column 0". However, I don't think that's valid ANSI, as the coordinates are 1-based. Probably it should have been "\x1b[2J\x1b[1;1H". -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
