Clear terminal in Python [duplicate]

Answer 1

python -c "from os import system; system('clear')"

Answer 2

Why hasn't anyone talked about just simply doing Ctrl+L in Windows or Cmd+L in Mac. Surely the simplest way of clearing screen.

Answer 3

This works on all platforms and it does work in both Python 2 and 3.

def clear(number):
    for i in range(number):
        print(" ")

Then to clear just type clear(numberhere).

Answer 4

This will be work in Both version Python2 OR Python3

print (u"{}[2J{}[;H".format(chr(27), chr(27)))

Answer 5

This will clear 25 new lines:

def clear():
    print(' \n' * 25)

clear()

I use eclipse with pydev. I like the newline solution better than the for num in range . The for loop throws warnings, while the print newline doesn't. If you want to specify the number of newlines in the clear statement try this variation.

def clear(j):
    print(' \n' * j)

clear(25)

Answer 6

You can use call() function to execute terminal's commands :

from subprocess import call
call("clear")