curses.update_lines_cols() Update LINES and COLS. Useful for detecting manual screen resize.

encoding The name of the encoding used to decode the stream’s bytes into strings, and to encode strings into bytes.

os.posix_fadvise(fd, offset, len, advice) Announces an intention to access data in a specific pattern thus allowing the kernel

os.WTERMSIG(status) Return the signal which caused the process to exit. Availability: Unix.

columns Width of the terminal window in characters.

curses.start_color() Must be called if the programmer wants to use colors, and before any other color manipulation routine is

curses.baudrate() Return the output speed of the terminal in bits per second. On software terminal emulators it will have a

ArgumentParser.format_help() Return a string containing a help message, including the program usage and information about the

os.forkpty() Fork a child process, using a new pseudo-terminal as the child’s controlling terminal. Return a pair of (pid

class ctypes.c_longlong Represents the C signed long long datatype. The constructor accepts an optional integer