getting *term window dimensions w/o curses

[Andrei Kulakov]

On 05 Aug 2001 01:05:15 +0300, Erno Kuusela <erno-news at erno.iki.fi> wrote:
> In article <slrn9mopj4.26a.sill at sill.silmarill.org>,
> sill at optonline.net (Andrei Kulakov) writes:
> 
>| Is there some way to get aterm (and other terms) window dimension(s)
>| without curses?
> 
> use google :)

I'm probably not using a good search string, but search for
python get term size without curses
returned nothing on first 2 pages of hits in google groups..

Anyway, this solution doesn't work in 2.1 - termios module doesn't
have this attribute, (TERMIOS is deprecated and doesn't have it either).

What's tigetstr?
[snip]
>> # Eep!  this next should be made rather more portable (ie. fallback to
>> # env vars, then tigetstr("lines"), etc).
>> def getheightwidth():
>>     height, width = struct.unpack(
>>         "hhhh", ioctl(0, TERMIOS.TIOCGWINSZ ,"\000"*8))[0:2]
>>     return height, width
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> M.
> 
> 
> 
>   -- erno


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