Python Programming Language :: getting terminal display size?


	getting terminal display size? I looked around a lot on the internet and couldn't find out how to do this, how do I get the sizer (in rows and columns) of the view? On 25 Feb 2007 16:53:17 -0800, jeff <jeffrey.ayleswo@gmail.com> wrote: >I looked around a lot on the internet and couldn't find out how to do >this, how do I get the sizer (in rows and columns) of the view? Assuming you're talking about something vaguely *NIXy, you want something like what's being done here: http://twistedmatrix.com/trac/browser/trunk/twisted/conch/scripts/con... Jean-Paul On 2007-02-26, jeff <jeffrey.ayleswo@gmail.com> wrote: > I looked around a lot on the internet and couldn't find out how to do > this, how do I get the sizer (in rows and columns) of the view? You use the TIOCGWINSZ ioctl() call on the tty device in question. import termios, fcntl, struct, sys s = struct.pack("HHHH", 0, 0, 0, 0) fd_stdout = sys.stdout.fileno() x = fcntl.ioctl(fd_stdout, termios.TIOCGWINSZ, s) print '(rows, cols, x pixels, y pixels) =', print struct.unpack("HHHH", x) -- Grant Edwards gra@visi.com On 2007-02-26, Grant Edwards <gra@visi.com> wrote: > On 2007-02-26, jeff <jeffrey.ayleswo@gmail.com> wrote: >> I looked around a lot on the internet and couldn't find out how to do >> this, how do I get the sizer (in rows and columns) of the view? > You use the TIOCGWINSZ ioctl() call on the tty device in question. > import termios, fcntl, struct, sys > s = struct.pack("HHHH", 0, 0, 0, 0) > fd_stdout = sys.stdout.fileno() > x = fcntl.ioctl(fd_stdout, termios.TIOCGWINSZ, s) > print '(rows, cols, x pixels, y pixels) =', > print struct.unpack("HHHH", x) You may also want to handle the WINCH signal so that you know when the window size has been changed. --