get the terminal's size

[Bob van der Poel]

On Mon, Jan 14, 2019 at 4:57 AM Alex Ternaute <alex at lussinan.invalid> wrote:

> Hi there,
>
> I want to know the number of columns of the terminal where python2 writes
> it's outputs.
>
> In a terminal, I type
> $ echo $COLUMNS
> 100
>
> But in Python, os.getenv("COLUMNS") gets nothing.
> It gets nothing as well if I try to read the output of "echo $COLUMNS"
> from a subprocess.
>
> I feel that I'm missing something but what ?
>
> Looking on the internet for a hint, I see that python3 has an
> os.get_terminal_size().
> Please, is there something similar for python2 ?
>
> Cheers
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> Alex
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try this:


http://stackoverflow.com/questions/566746/how-to-get-console-window-width-in-python


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