Cannot clear console

Description of your problem

What steps will reproduce the problem?

1. Open Spyder
2. Execute a command
3. Right click on the console and choose “clear the console”

What is the expected output? What do you see instead? The console should be cleared but it isn’t, all the previous commands still stay visible in the console. A “%clear” is issued instead.

Please provide any additional information below

Versions and main components

• Spyder Version: 2.3.8
• Python Version: 2.7
• Operating system: Win8 64-bit

Dependencies

Please go to the menu entry Help > Optional Dependencies (or Help > Dependencies), press the button Copy to clipboard and paste the contents below: IPython >=1.0 : 4.1.2 (OK) jedi >=0.8.1;<0.9.0: 0.9.0 (NOK) matplotlib >=1.0 : 1.5.1 (OK) pandas >=0.13.1 : 0.18.0 (OK) pep8 >=0.6 : 1.7.0 (OK) pyflakes >=0.5.0 : 1.1.0 (OK) pygments >=1.6 : 2.1.1 (OK) pylint >=0.25 : None (NOK) qtconsole >=4.0 : 4.2.0 (OK) rope >=0.9.2 : 0.9.4 (OK) sphinx >=0.6.6 : 1.3.5 (OK) sympy >=0.7.3 : 1.0 (OK) zmq >=2.1.11 : 15.2.0 (OK)

[ccordoba12]

This was fixed in jupyter/qtconsole#225 and it will be part of qtconsole 4.3.1.

[ccordoba12]

We’ll fix it for Spyder 3.2.