How to get the width of a string in pixels?

Question

I am using wxPython's HyperTreeList and I want to set the column width exactly equal to length of the largest string in it. To accomplish that, I'd like to to convert a python string size into pixels. For Example: If we have a string like ``` str = "python" len(str) = 6 ``` How could I convert the above string length/size into pixels? Is there another way?

Accepted Answer

You'll have to do something like (see the documentation of wxWidgets for more info)

```
f = window.GetFont()
dc = wx.WindowDC(window)
dc.SetFont(f)
width, height = dc.GetTextExtent("Text to measure")
```

How to get the width of a string in pixels?

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