Is shutil.get_terminal_size useless?

[Chris Angelico]

On Mon, Jan 30, 2017 at 4:08 AM, Grant Edwards
<grant.b.edwards at gmail.com> wrote:
> As long as you've got the disk space available, the simplest option is
> to unpack the .iso into a directory, modify the files, and then use
> mkisofs to create the new .iso image.
>
> I've written scripts like that to build cusotmized bootable ISO images
> (usually using systemrescuecd as the starting point).  It's not
> particulary difficult, but it does burn up a lot of disk space.  It's
> also rather slow, so when you get into the tweak-build-burn-test cycle
> you don't get in a lot of guesses-per-hour.

These days, CD images are a tiny proportion of typical hard disk
capacities. Every terabyte of disk can hold over a thousand ISOs, and
that's assuming they're using the whole disc (~760MB). Several
thousand, if they're only part-full images.

But the time factor is considerable. Especially if you then have to
boot up a VM or something to test it.

ChrisA