On Thursday, 19 January 2006 at 12:37:38 -0800, Danny Yoo wrote: > > > On Thu, 19 Jan 2006, Vincent Zee wrote: > > > say you want to write a more-like program. How do you know how many > > lines the terminal window can display. > > Hi Vincent, > > It's possible that this information might already be in your environment. > If you're using the 'bash' shell, and if the 'checkwinsize' option is set > in bash, then bash should keep track of the window size through LINES and > COLUMNS. According to the "Art of Unix Programming": > > http://www.faqs.org/docs/artu/ch10s04.html > > those variables are fairly standard and lots of programs use them. But I > don't know if other shells go out of their way to maintain consistancy > with the current terminal size on terminal resizing. > > If you want to get at the environment variables, take a look at the > 'os.environ' dictionary: > > http://www.python.org/doc/lib/os-procinfo.html#l2h-1508 > > > Alternatively, if you're on Unix, the 'curses' module will get you the > information you want. > > http://www.python.org/doc/lib/module-curses.html
Hi Danny, thank you for your reply. I want the program to run on Freebsd and on MacOSX. On FreeBSD I use the tcsh and on Mac its bash or tcsh. I looked at the curses module and also to the cursus howto on python.org but I find it still a bit unclear on how to use it. There being curses, ncurses and a curses wrapper. I'm a little confused. The os.environ didn't give me any hints to screen size so maybe curses is the way to go. Any pointers to other curses howto's? /\ Vincent _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
