clear shell command

[Duim]

First of all: I really like Spyder and use it all the time.

question: Is there a command within Spyder to clear the shell and the
workspace?

[Pierre Raybaut]

In "Interactive console" menu: click on "Restart Python interpreter".

Cheers,
Pierre

[Duim]

ok, thank you.

There isn't a command which I can use in my python script?

I would like the same for a "clear workspace"

Reason I'm asking is that I'm using Spyder often like I used to use
Matlab and I'm looking for the same thing as matlab functions "clear
all" and "clc".

[William Gardiner]

from http://scientificcomputingco.blogspot.com/2013/10/python-spyder-clear-workspaceshell.html

add the following to C:/Python27/Lib/site-packages/spyderlib/scientific_startup.py (I inserted it at the end of the file)

#==================

# clear functions from http://scientificcomputingco.blogspot.com/2013/10/python-spyder-clear-workspaceshell.html

#===================

def clear():

        '''Clears the shell of the spyder application

        Use either clear() or cls()'''

        os.system('cls')

        return None

cls = clear

def clear_all():

    '''Clears all the variables from the workspace of the spyder application.'''

    cls()

    gl = globals().copy()

    for var in gl:

        if var[0] == '_': continue

        if 'func' in str(globals()[var]): continue

        if 'module' in str(globals()[var]): continue

        del globals()[var]

setscientific()

del setscientific

clear_all()

print 'Type "scientific" for more details.'

I'm getting an error saying that setscientific() is not defined though when I start spyder and an error saying "The system cannot find the path specified" when I run the clear_all() command.

But it seems to work regardless, clears all the variables from the Variable Explorer.

[wxwac...@gmail.com]

If you want to clear the shell in order to avoid confusing different outputs you can use something like print('n'*1000)  in your script as shorter yet less elegant alternative to the os.system call.
Altertanively you could use an Ipython console which features numbered outputs.

Restarting the Python Interpreter will reset both shell and workspace.
So what about a "Clear Console" option in the "Interactive console" menu similar to the Clear button of GIMP's Python console?

[Ryan Clary]

Ctrl+. Restarts an IPython console, don't know if that helps.

Ryan Clary

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