Well, you can run any system command from within Python as well: import os os.system('clear')
But I'm not sure this will help in this case. Are you trying to program a console app in Python? If so, you may want to look into curses module or other console lib that has Python bindings (like newt). http://docs.python.org/lib/module-curses.html HTH, Max // http://max.textdriven.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list