Get terminal size in perl and python

[Kalle Svensson]

Sez Grant Edwards:
> In article <mailman.984079092.10641.python-list at python.org>, Kalle Svensson wrote:
> >Sez Egbert Bouwman:
> >> My perl correspondent uses:
> >>     use Term::ReadKey;
> >>     ($cols,$lines)=GetTerminalSize()
> >> What is the python equivalent ?
> >
> >I'd use os.environ["COLUMNS"] and os.environ["LINES"], but I've no idea
> >about how portable they are. 
> 
> In most Unixes you'd be better off using the ioctl() call (the
> details of which I can't remember at the moment -- I thought it
> was in the termios struct, but I can't find it).

Ah, yes.  Some research gave me this (i686 Linux 2.2.17, Python 2.1a2):
###### START ######
import struct, fcntl, IOCTL, sys

s = struct.pack("HHHH", 0, 0, 0, 0)
while 1:
    if raw_input("") == "q":
        break
    lines, cols = struct.unpack("HHHH", fcntl.ioctl(sys.stdout.fileno(),
		                                    IOCTL.TIOCGWINSZ, s))[:2]
    print lines, "lines,", cols, "cols."
####### END #######
If you don't have a IOCTL module, don't want to make you own, and have the
same platform as I, replace IOCTL.TIOCGWINSZ with 0x5413.

Lovely beasts, those ioctls.

Peace,
  Kalle
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