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user2322274
user2322274

Reputation: 25

"Refreshing" Command Line in Windows

I started learning python few days ago, I wrote an easy program. A user enters data and it gives information about the data.

while True:
 x = input("Enter Data: ")
        
 if x == z:
            print("")
          
           
 if x == y:
            print("") 
 if x == l:
            print("")
          
           
 if x == k:
            print("")

I am using program in windows command line. What I am trying to do is: when you "enter data" and program gives you information, you press enter and command line refresh and "enter data" appears again.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 3652

Answers (2)

gatto
gatto

Reputation: 2957

On Windows you can use cls to clear screen (see this question for details):

import os
import sys

while True:
    value = raw_input('Enter data: ')

    if value == 'quit':
        break

    print value

    # wait for enter key
    sys.stdin.read(1)
    os.system('cls')

Curses example:

import curses

w = curses.initscr()

while True:
    w.addstr("Enter data: ")
    value = w.getstr()

    if value == 'quit':
        break

    w.addstr('data: %s\n' % value)

    w.addstr('Press any key to continue')
    w.getch()
    w.clear()
    w.refresh()

curses.endwin()

Upvotes: 1

bozdoz
bozdoz

Reputation: 12870

while True: means "keep doing this". So it's going to keep asking you to enter data. Maybe what you're looking for is to define a function instead: def ask(): instead, and then in the command line, type ask(), and it will prompt you only the one time, which is what I am guessing you want.

Upvotes: 0

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