How to get screen size through python curses

Question

I'm writing a terminal program and need to get the size of the TTY I'm using. The Internet seems to suggest this can be done with curses, but I can't seem to find out how in python. I'm trying to avoid using the ROWS and COLUMNS environment variables if possible :)

Answer 1

Apparently, the getmaxyx() method is what you need. It returns a (height, width) tuple.

Python reference

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