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get terminal size using ioctl get win size (TIOCGWINSZ) in Python
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tty-size.py
import termios
import fcntl
import os
import struct
with open(os.ctermid(), 'r') as fd:
packed = fcntl.ioctl(fd, termios.TIOCGWINSZ, struct.pack('HHHH', 0, 0, 0, 0))
rows, cols, h_pixels, v_pixels = struct.unpack('HHHH', packed)
print rows, cols, h_pixels, v_pixels
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