On 2019-01-16, Karen Shaeffer <klsshaef...@gmail.com> wrote: [fixed quoting and formatting]
>> That will tell you the terminal size at the time Python was started. >> >> If the terminal size has changed while Python was running, those >> environment variables will be wrong. You need to use the TIOCGWINSZ >> ioctl call: >> >> http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/doc/libc/libc_495.html >> >> And to detect the size changes (so you know _when_ you need to do the >> above), you need to attach a signal handler for the WINCH signal. > > I'm running a python 3 interpreter on linux. I'm actually ssh'd into > the terminal on a headless server. [...] > [...] > With the python interpreter running on the remote terminal, I have > resized the terminal window on my local laptop several times. And > each time, the remote python interpreter knows about the change, > correctly printing the new size. I have done nothing with > environment variables. I have not used a signal handler for the > WINCH signal. It just works. Yes, we know that works on Python3. The discussion was about what to do on Python2. $ python2 Python 2.7.15 (default, Sep 12 2018, 15:19:18) [GCC 7.3.0] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import shutil >>> shutil.get_terminal_size() Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'get_terminal_size' >>> -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! I'm having a BIG BANG at THEORY!! gmail.com -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
