How to get Linux console window width in Python

Question

Is there a way in python to programmatically determine the width of the console? I mean the number of characters that fits in one line without wrapping, not the pixel width

Answer 1

@reannual's answer works well, but there's an issue with it: os.popen is now deprecated. The subprocess module should be used instead, so here's a version of @reannual's code that uses subprocess and directly answers the question (by giving the column width directly as an int:

import subprocess

columns = int(subprocess.check_output(['stty', 'size']).split()[1])

Tested on OS X 10.9