On Sat, 28 Jan 2017 11:53 pm, Peter Otten wrote: [...] >> I see that as "Hey look, we can fool shutil into returning >> absolute garbage instead of the terminal size!" > > There are valid reasons for temporarily altering the number of columns, > like writing to a file or preparing a code sample.
Hmmm... I hadn't thought of that. You're right that there are scenarios where you might wish to tell a process to use a different number of columns (or even lines). Good point. I'm not sure that the given API is a good one, but I accept that the COLUMNS + LINES environment variables could be used to override the actual terminal size. -- Steve “Cheer up,” they said, “things could be worse.” So I cheered up, and sure enough, things got worse. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
