[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Floyd L. Davidson) writes: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>If I may recommend an alternative, >> >>print "\033[H\033[J" >> >>the ansi sequence to clear the screen. > > Or so you would hope (however, that is *not* what you have listed!). > > Unfortunately, it is poor practice to hard code such sequences. > Instead the proper sequence should be obtained from the > appropriate database (TERMINFO or TERMCAP), and the easy way to > do that is, > > tput clear
(Or "clear".) On the other hand, I think it's been at least a decade since I've used a terminal or emulator that's not VT100-compatible (i.e., accepts ANSI control sequences). Of course, I'll run into one the day after I start writing code that depends on that assumption. -- Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://www.ghoti.net/~kst> San Diego Supercomputer Center <*> <http://users.sdsc.edu/~kst> We must do something. This is something. Therefore, we must do this. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list