Is shutil.get_terminal_size useless?

[Steve D'Aprano]

On Sat, 28 Jan 2017 11:53 pm, Peter Otten wrote:

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>> I see that as "Hey look, we can fool shutil into returning
>> absolute garbage instead of the terminal size!"
> 
> There are valid reasons for temporarily altering the number of columns,
> like writing to a file or preparing a code sample.

Hmmm... I hadn't thought of that. You're right that there are scenarios
where you might wish to tell a process to use a different number of columns
(or even lines). Good point.

I'm not sure that the given API is a good one, but I accept that the COLUMNS
+ LINES environment variables could be used to override the actual terminal
size.



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Steve
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