pyterminalsize

A package to provide access to terminal size.

It uses the following heuristics:

It first attemps the backported shutil.get_terminal_size (from python3.5)
- Unlike the stdlib implementation it will try each of stdin, stdout, and stderr to find terminal size whereas the stdlib only checks stdout.
- This means that terminal size can still be reported when piping as long as one or more of the streams is not piped.
It then falls back to the tput executable (so cygwin works)
Failing all that, it returns a specified fallback (or (80, 24))

Usage

>>> from pyterminalsize import get_terminal_size
>>> get_terminal_size()
Size(columns=80, lines=61, source='stdin')

source can be any of the values specified in SizeSource

SizeSource(
    environment='environment',
    stdin='stdin',
    stdout='stdout',
    stderr='stderr',
    tput='tput',
    fallback='fallback',
)

pip install pyterminalsize