screen size when editing python

[Skaperen]

what screen size do coders here have?  i have increased my size by moving to a smaller font to better accommodate some cloud facility output.  my 2-window side-by-side size is now 91x51 (was 82x46).  the 1-window size is 184x51 but i can work with the 2-window size more often, now.  i do try to follow PEP008 recently, but it can be a little harder now to keep line widths under 80 or 72.  it would be nice if the editor helped better in this regard.

[Larz60+]

On windows you can use:

from win32api import GetSystemMetrics

Width = GetSystemMetrics(0)
Height = GetSystemMetrics(1)

Not sure on Linux

[Skaperen]

On windows you can use:

from win32api import GetSystemMetrics

Width = GetSystemMetrics(0)
Height = GetSystemMetrics(1)

Not sure on Linux

what i am wanting to know is what your screen size is.  and that of other people here, too.

but i do have the following code for Linux.  i don't have Windows to try it on.

#!/usr/bin/env python3
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
from __future__ import print_function
import fcntl,struct,sys,termios


def get_terminal_geometry(fd=0):
    """get current terminal geometry (width,height)"""
    global width,height
    try:
        height,width=struct.unpack('4H',fcntl.ioctl(fd,
            termios.TIOCGWINSZ,struct.pack('4H',0,0,0,0)))[:2]

    except:
        height,width=None,None
    if height==None:
        try:
            fd=os.open('/dev/tty',os.O_WRONLY)
            height,width=struct.unpack('4H',fcntl.ioctl(fd,
                termios.TIOCGWINSZ,struct.pack('4H',0,0,0,0)))[:2]
            os.close(fd)
            del fd
        except:
            height,width=None,None
    return (width,height)


width,height=0,0
get_terminal_geometry(0)


def main(args):
    """command to output terminal geometry"""
    get_terminal_geometry()
    print(repr(width),'x',repr(height))
    return 0


if __name__ == '__main__':
    try:
        result=main(sys.argv)
        sys.stdout.flush()
    except BrokenPipeError:
        result=99
    except KeyboardInterrupt:
        print('')
        result=98
    if result is 0 or result is None or result is True:
        exit(0)
    if result is 1 or result is False:
        exit(1)
    if isinstance(result,str):
        print(result,file=sys.stderr)
        exit(2)
    try:
        exit(int(result))
    except ValueError:
        print(str(result),file=sys.stderr)
        exit(3)
    except TypeError:
        exit(4)
# EOF

the above is usable as a command or i can do stty -a to get the geometry info and lots more.

[Ofnuts]

My usual editor or terminal windows are around 132 chars wide (my screen would allow about twice that).

[wavic]

rows 59; columns 213;

[snippsat]

No size set,have set guide line at 93 character in Atom.
I agree with Raymond Hettinger' talk "Beyond pep-8",that sometime can 90'ish be okay.
This is if it's unnatural to break a line to get down to 79 characters.

A link to the new CSS styled PEP-8 bye Kenneth Reitz,
for those that have not seen it yet.

[wavic]

Actually, I don't care too much how long the line will be.
I will not sacrifice the readability for some rules.

[Skaperen]

Actually, I don't care too much how long the line will be.
I will not sacrifice the readability for some rules.

there is that bit about "A Foolish Consistency is the Hobgoblin of Little Minds" which gives 4 "good reasons to ignore a particular guideline".  i have been experimenting lately with regard to readability and long lines.  i have much code going each way.

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My usual editor or terminal windows are around 132 chars wide (my screen would allow about twice that).

so your screen is in the range of 264+ ... enough to have 3 windows wide at the size of 80 characters wide or a bit more.

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FYI, i use a script named "e" to start editing a file.  it unsets the DISPLAY environment variable so the editor operates in the shell terminal window.  i do this for consistency across many ssh sessions.

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my "e" script make a backup each time i use it.  actually that is done per-file since it supports multiple files per command.

[Larz60+]

but i do have the following code for Linux.  i don't have Windows to try it on.

This is a bit late, but found this package which works on windows, cygwin, X11, and osx the package was posted last month

from screeninfo import get_monitors

on windows 7 I use it as follows

           m = str(get_monitors()[0])
           m1 = re.sub("[x+]", ',', str(m[m.index('(') + 1:].strip(')'))).split(',')
           # list also has offsets in m1[2] and m1[3]
           self.screen_width = int(m1[0])
           self.screen_height = int(m1[1])
           print('self.screen_width: {}, self.screen_height: {}'
                 .format(self.screen_width, self.screen_height))

result:

Output:
self.screen_width: 1920, self.screen_height: 1080

This was

[sparkz_alot]

I also do not have a set size. When playing with Python I might, at most have four apps open: cmd terminal, IDE, browser and notepad++.  The terminal fits nicely above notepad++, IDE in the middle and browser at the far right.