Get terminal size in perl and python

[Skip Montanaro]

    Egbert> My perl correspondent uses:
    Egbert>     use Term::ReadKey;
    Egbert>     ($cols,$lines)=GetTerminalSize()
    Egbert> What is the python equivalent ?
    Egbert> If I don't come up with one, python looses ten points.

Looks like this will work.  (I've never used curses, so there may be a more
appropriate way to do it.)

    import curses
    stdscr = curses.initscr()
    rows, cols = stdscr.getmaxyx()

For more details, check out the online docs:

    http://www.python.org/doc/current/lib/module-curses.html
    http://www.python.org/doc/howto/curses/curses.html

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