line wrapping / formatting answer

[ghost]

Love this tools :)

It would gain a lot of readability if the output would wrap the line at a given width - or is there a way to force that? at this point the output cut whatever word in order to move to next line.

thanks!

[gleitz]

Good idea. I wonder if there is a way to determine the terminal size in Python...

$ howdoi determine console width in python
import console
(width, height) = console.getTerminalSize()

print "Your terminal's width is: %d" % width

Given that we know the console width what is the best place to break the text? Perhaps we would wrap at 80 chars unless the console was <80 characters wide? We would also have to know the terminal font size to determine how many characters fit on a line.

[ghost]

I think 80 columns would be a good start, I also like the formating for man pages, where there is also some paddings on both side of the text.

[gleitz]

Leaving this here as it appears to be a good code snippet for getting the terminal size in an OS agnostic way.

https://github.com/Steve-V/python_homework/blob/master/assignment1/getTerminalSize.py