Clear Command Line Output From Python [eclipse]

I'm using Eclipse for writing Python, and I want to be able to easily clear the screen. I've seen this question, and tried (among other things suggested there) the following soluti

Solution 1:

The problem with running it in eclipse is that cls uses ANSI escape sequences to clear the screen. What I mean by this is that to clear the screen, cls writes a string such as "\033[[80;j" to the output buffer. The native console (the one outside of eclipse) interprets this as a command to clear the screen, but the eclipse console doesn't understand it, so just prints a small square as if printing an unknown character.

Solution 2:

Clearing in outputs is actually not possible. The best hack is to print full of line breaks. IDEs like Eclipse never simulate terminals properly.

Solution 3:

As its just eclipse problem I suppose it will not affect your final product if you want to clean your final users' screen while for eclipse environment there is a little button in top-right of the console screen which enables you from cleaning it.