How to get terminal width?

[Radovan Garabik]

Doug Stanfield <DOUGS at oceanic.com> wrote:
 : Assuming you're on a *nix platform, there is an environmental variable,
 : COLUMNS, that should be accessible.  If you use curses there is a
hmmm...

atlas13:pts/7:~% echo $COLUMNS
84
atlas13:pts/7:~% python
Python 1.5.2 (#0, Mar 12 2000, 22:39:11)  [GCC 2.95.2 20000220 (Debian GNU/Linux)] on linux2
Copyright 1991-1995 Stichting Mathematisch Centrum, Amsterdam
>>> import os
>>> os.environ['COLUMNS']
Traceback (innermost last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
  File "/usr/lib/python1.5/UserDict.py", line 14, in __getitem__
    def __getitem__(self, key): return self.data[key]
KeyError: COLUMNS


what's up?

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