Console column Width

[Michael Hudson]

"Nathan Heagy" <gervaserules at yahoo.com> writes:

> I can't figure out how to learn the (linux) console's column width from
> within a script? That is, without using curses.

This works for me:

def getwidth():
    return getheightwidth()[1]

# 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.

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