Like most Python developers, I typically keep a console window open with the Python interpreter running to test commands, dir() stuff, help() stuff, etc.
Like any console, after a while the visible backlog of past commands and prints gets to be cluttered, and sometimes confusing when re-running the same command several times. I'm wondering if, and how, to clear the Python interpreter console.
I've heard about doing a system call and either calling cls on Windows or clear on Linux, but I was hoping there was something I could command the interpreter itself to do.
Note: I'm running on Windows, so Ctrl + L doesn't work.
As you mentioned, you can do a system call:
For Windows:
>>> import os
>>> clear = lambda: os.system('cls')
>>> clear()
For Linux it would be:
>>> import os
>>> clear = lambda: os.system('clear')
>>> clear()