How to clear VS code terminal using python code?-CodePudding

I am taking input from user in python code. and as per user's provided input I want to clear previous outputs in terminal.

so is there any function? So I can put it in my code.

I searched on internet but it showing me Shortcut keys from keyboard but I want to clear terminal with help of code.(not want to type terminal )

CodePudding user response：

The commands will be slightly different depending on if you're running Python in Windows or Linux/Mac (or a Unix like terminal while in Windows)

In Windows terminals, the command to clear the screen is cls.
In Max/Linux/Unix, the command is clear.
Windows Powershell appears to except either cls or clear.

To call the appropriate command from within a script, you need to import the os module and call os.system(cmd). This will return a value of 0 for success, so if you are testing it in the terminal directly you may see an extra 0 get displayed on the screen if you don't put the return value into a variable.

Here's some code to call the correct function based on your os. os.name will return 'nt' for Windows or 'posix' for Mac/Linux

import os

# define our clear function
def clear():
    # for Windows
    if os.name == 'nt':
        _ = os.system('cls')

    # Mac or Linux (aka posix)
    else:
        _ = os.system('clear')

Calling the clear() function in your script should clear the terminal as needed.

CodePudding user response：

You can clear the terminal with:

print('\x1b[H\x1b[2J', end='')

...or...

from sys import stdout
stdout.write('\x1b[H\x1b[2J')

...which is probably more efficient than os.system(...)

The string is actually 2 CSI sequences. The first moves the cursor to the screen origin (1, 1). The second sequence is the clear screen directive