how to clear python console in pycharm

1This question is a bit old but I thought I would leave this here for other people who are wondering how to do this
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3How to
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5Download this package https://github.com/asweigart/pyautogui. It allows python to send key strokes.
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7You may have to install some other packages first
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9If you are installing PyAutoGUI from PyPI using pip:
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11Windows has no dependencies. The Win32 extensions do not need to be installed.
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13OS X needs the pyobjc-core and pyobjc module installed (in that order).
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15Linux needs the python3-xlib (or python-xlib for Python 2) module installed. Pillow needs to be installed, and on Linux you may need to install additional libraries to make sure Pillow's PNG/JPEG works correctly. See:
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17Set a keyboard shortcut for clearing the run window in pycharm as explained by Taylan Aydinli
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19CMD + , (or Pycharm preferences);
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21Search: "clear all"; Double click ->
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23Add keyboard shortcut (set it to CTRL + L or anything)
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25Enjoy this new hot key in your Pycharm console!
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27Then if you set the keyboard shortcut for 'clear all' to Command + L use this in your python script
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29import pyautogui
30pyautogui.hotkey('command', 'l')
31Example program
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33This will clear the screen after the user types an input.
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35EDIT: If you aren't focused on the tool window then your clear hot-key won't work, you can see this for yourself if you try pressing your hot-key while focused on, say, the editor, you won't clear the embedded terminals contents.
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37PyAutoGUI has no way of focusing on windows directly, to solve this you can try to find the coordinate where the run terminal is located and then send a left click to focus, if you don't already know the coordinates where you can click your mouse you can find it out with the following code:
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39import pyautogui
40from time import sleep
41sleep(2)
42print(pyautogui.position())
43An example of output:
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45(2799, 575)
46and now the actual code:
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48import pyautogui
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50while True:
51    input_1 = input("?")
52    print(input_1)
53    pyautogui.click(x=2799, y=575)
54    pyautogui.hotkey('command', 'l')