Clearing screen in python

[Pythons]

Hello all,
I'm trying to create a text based game currently, although, I've run into a issue:
My code has a 'typewriter' effect by using the code below:

def txtdelay(text):
    for char in text:                  
        sleep(0.038)                  
        sys.stderr.write(char)
        sys.stdout.flush()

 

text("Example")

It doesn't work in python.exe, only in IDLE

I want to have my code refresh the screen after a while by using this:

 

import os

os.system('cls')

 

It doesn't work in IDLE, only python.exe

Any help would be appreciated!!

[fizzlesticks]

 

11 minutes ago, Pythons said:

        sys.stderr.write(char)
        sys.stdout.flush()

You're writing to stderr but flushing stdout. stderr should only be used for errors.

 

Quote

import os

os.system('cls')

 

It doesn't work in IDLE, only python.exe

You can't clear the screen in IDLE. You can print a bunch of blank lines but that will look horrible, best option is to fix the other problem and run it outsite of an IDE.

[Pythons]

6 minutes ago, fizzlesticks said:

 

You're writing to stderr but flushing stdout. stderr should only be used for errors.

 

You can't clear the screen in IDLE. You can print a bunch of blank lines but that will look horrible, best option is to fix the other problem and run it outsite of an IDE.

Thanks a bunch!