Here is the json to text conversion, that was part of the view jrnl project, but I couldn't get working for some reason when I tried it.

Anyway, had some time today and decided that I should try it, as it would be very helpful to know how to do …

Both are quite handy and I did NOT realize that they existed. Just import textwrap, give a constraint, and away you go. Quite nice. Need to use this in several scripts.

Found a nice implementation that works well at How to get Linux console window width in Python by Harco …