Message 150775 - Python tracker

Message150775

Author	vstinner
Recipients	Arfrever, amaury.forgeotdarc, denilsonsa, giampaolo.rodola, loewis, neologix, pitrou, rosslagerwall, vstinner, zbysz
Date	2012-01-06.22:44:30
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In-reply-to	<1325853017.71.0.936491533882.issue13609@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>

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> - fd argument is retained, because we might want to test terminals > opened with openpty. You mean a terminal different than the one used for stdin, stdout and stderr? > - two functions: still there. I think that get_terminal_size() should > provide an easy-to-use, even trivial-to-use, way to get a sensible > value without writing a wrapper. In the _majority_ of cases the > wrapper would be something like get_terminal_size() currently. get_terminal_size() looks like reliable than raw_get_terminal_size() because environment variables are not updated when the terminal is resized.

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> - fd argument is retained, because we might want to test terminals
>  opened with openpty.

You mean a terminal different than the one used for stdin, stdout and stderr?

> - two functions: still there. I think that get_terminal_size() should
>  provide an easy-to-use, even trivial-to-use, way to get a sensible
>  value without writing a wrapper. In the _majority_ of cases the
>  wrapper would be something like get_terminal_size() currently.

get_terminal_size() looks like reliable than raw_get_terminal_size()
because environment variables are not updated when the terminal is
resized.

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Date	User	Action	Args
2012-01-06 22:44:31	vstinner	set	recipients: + vstinner, loewis, amaury.forgeotdarc, pitrou, giampaolo.rodola, Arfrever, zbysz, denilsonsa, neologix, rosslagerwall
2012-01-06 22:44:31	vstinner	link	issue13609 messages
2012-01-06 22:44:31	vstinner	create