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Recipe 498064: clear the screen

Clear the screen on unix terminals, uses terminfo.

terminfo inspiration courtesy of http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/475116

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def clear_screen():
    import curses, sys
    curses.setupterm()
    sys.stdout.write(curses.tigetstr("clear"))
    sys.stdout.flush()

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