On Thursday, 19 January 2006 at 23:53:06 -0000, Alan Gauld wrote: > Assuming you are on a Unix style OS/terminal you can read the > output of stty. Look at the rows value > > Here are a couple of runs of rows at different terminal sizes: > > $ stty -a | grep rows > speed 38400 baud; rows 41; columns 80; line = 0; > > $ stty -a | grep rows > speed 38400 baud; rows 26; columns 80; line = 0; > > A call to Popen should get you what you want. > > An alternative technique, and the one useed by the real > more/less programmes is to use curses to open a display > window. > Hi Alan,
this has helped me very much, thank you. I'll use the popen() before venturing into curses land. /\ Vincent _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
