I'm trying to find a way to make a quick clear screen command that works on all computers. I've looked around and can't find one...mainly people just saying that you have to know the system to know which one works... and then you can find the system, but then i don't know which cls works with which system and have no way of testing so is there a universal CLS out there for Python?

Quote:Original post by Durakken
I'm trying to find a way to make a quick clear screen command that works on all computers.

Sorry. Not possible. In any programming language.

Not all computers have a "screen", let alone a clearable one. Of course, by "screen" it appears that you really mean "console window". Python's output isn't even necessarily sent to a console window. Try using IDLE (the IDE that comes with Python) to run your program; now ask what the "clear screen" command ought to do there. Or try something like 'myfile.py > output.txt' from the command line; notice how nothing gets printed to "the screen" at all, but is instead dumped into the named text file.

If you are looking for the amount of control over "how the output looks" that "ability to clear the screen" implies, then you don't really want to just 'print' your output and will have to use something more sophisticated. Note that using more sophisticated tools effectively will require new code design skills that you probably haven't yet had a chance to practice.