This change makes printing the formfeed character, '\f', clear the shell
window in idle. I don't know if it also has other undesirable
consequences (I'm not an idle user, and I don't have the patience to do
much testing). Given this,
def cls():
print '\f'
Index: Lib/idlelib//OutputWindow.py
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RCS file: /cvsroot/python/python/dist/src/Lib/idlelib/OutputWindow.py,v
retrieving revision 1.10
diff -u -r1.10 OutputWindow.py
--- Lib/idlelib//OutputWindow.py 9 Jul 2003 18:48:24 -0000 1.10
+++ Lib/idlelib//OutputWindow.py 29 Feb 2004 01:30:34 -0000
@@ -35,6 +35,13 @@
# Act as output file
def write(self, s, tags=(), mark="insert"):
+ if "\x0c" in s:
+ print "OutputWindow.write saw ^L"
+ self.text.mark_unset("iomark")
+ s = s.split("\x0c")[-1]
+ print "new s: ", s
+ self.text.delete(0.0, "end")
+ self.text.mark_set("iomark", 0.0)
# Tk assumes that byte strings are Latin-1;
# we assume that they are in the locale's encoding
if isinstance(s, str):
