STINNER Victor <victor.stin...@gmail.com> added the comment:

> E.g. almost all programs disable color when piped explicitly through less.

Using my patch, you can use os.get_terminal_size(sys.stdout.fileno()) if you 
like to get an error if sys.stdout is a pipe. My patch only changes the 
behaviour if no argument is specified (hum, the "special" behaviour should be 
documented). Or you can also check explicitly sys.stdout.isatty().

It is just more convinient to fallback to stdin if stdout is not a TTY.

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