Unexpected behaviour of REPL prompt

[Roberthh]

By chance I determined an bahviour of the REPL prompt, which differs from standard python.
If at the >>> prompt I enter:
print ("[2J")
I get the REPL continuation prompt:
...
until I press Ctrl-D, which the prints the expected string [2J. I do not know whether this is intentional, but it's different.
Placing the print statement in a script works as expected.

[blmorris]

This appears to be related to an issue that was reported on GitHub a few days ago:

https://github.com/micropython/micropython/issues/1387

It can't hurt to report if you are having a problem with as well.

[Roberthh]

Thanks for fixing that
Robert

[Gordon_Hardman]

I noticed that behavior too. It looks like you were trying to send escape codes... This is what I ended up with:

print("\x1B\x5B2J", end="") #VT100 clear screen
print("\x1B\x5BH", end="") #VT100 upper left corner

It clears the screen and puts the cursor in the upper left corner, if your terminal program responds to to VT100 escape codes. It "repaints' from there down, which is frequently a lot nicer than having stuff scrolling off the screen!