TERM environment variable not set.

[Mattyp77]

I started getting this error quite a while ago in pycharm only. Cant quite pinpoint what else may have caused it. I for the most part just continued to work around it. Before the error started coming up it worked perfectly. What brings it up is my clear_screen function. It works fine if I just run the file in terminal and it also runs good in VS Code but only in Pycharm does this error pop up. And for reference I am running Linux Mint. Heres the clear screen code.

import os

def clear_screen():
    if os.name == 'nt':
        os.system('cls')  # For Windows
    else:
        os.system('clear')  # For other platforms like macOS and Linux

 

[menator01]

What's the error? If it's pycharm only, kind of sounds like a path issue.

 

[VBService]

Check this: os.system('clear') in code returns "TERM environment variable not set" instead of clearing console

Did you tried?

import os

def clear_screen():
    if os.name == 'nt':
        os.system('cls')  # For Windows
    else:
        os.environ['TERM'] = 'xterm'  # Set TERM to 'xterm' for other platforms like macOS and Linux
        os.system('clear')

 

[Mattyp77]

Check this: os.system('clear') in code returns "TERM environment variable not set" instead of clearing console

Did you tried?

import os

def clear_screen():
    if os.name == 'nt':
        os.system('cls')  # For Windows
    else:
        os.environ['TERM'] = 'xterm'  # Set TERM to 'xterm' for other platforms like macOS and Linux
        os.system('clear')

Thanks I'll try this when I'm home from work