Most of the time, while working with Python interactive shell/terminal (not a console), we end up with a messy output and want to clear the screen for some reason. In an interactive shell/terminal, we can simply use
ctrl+l
But, what if we want to clear the screen while running a python script? Unfortunately, there’s no built-in keyword or function/method to clear the screen. So, we do it on our own.
Clearing Screen in windows Operating System
Method 1: Clear screen in Python using cls
You can simply “cls” to clear the screen in windows.
Python3
import os# Clearing the Screenos.system('cls') |
Example 2: Clear screen in Python using clear
You can also only “import os” instead of “from os import system” but with that, you have to change system(‘clear’) to os.system(‘clear’).
Python3
# import only system from osfrom os import system, name# import sleep to show output for some time periodfrom time import sleep# define our clear functiondef clear(): # for windows if name == 'nt': _ = system('cls') # for mac and linux(here, os.name is 'posix') else: _ = system('clear')# print out some textprint('hello Lazyroar\n'*10)# sleep for 2 seconds after printing outputsleep(2)# now call function we defined aboveclear() |
Example 3: Clear screen in Python using call
Another way to accomplish this is using the subprocess module.
Python3
# import call method from subprocess modulefrom subprocess import call# import sleep to show output for some time periodfrom time import sleep# define clear functiondef clear(): # check and make call for specific operating system _ = call('clear' if os.name == 'posix' else 'cls')print('hello Lazyroar\n'*10)# sleep for 2 seconds after printing outputsleep(2)# now call function we defined aboveclear() |
Clearing Screen in Linux Operating System
In this example, we used the time module and os module to clear the screen in Linux os.
Python3
import osfrom time import sleep# some textprint("a")print("b")print("c")print("d")print("e")print("Screen will now be cleared in 5 Seconds")# Waiting for 5 seconds to clear the screensleep(5)# Clearing the Screenos.system('clear') |
