Python get list of available fonts on system

Question

how can I get all available fonts in the system (Linux) ?

I searched and found this: http://www.lemoda.net/pango/list-fonts/ but it's in C and depend on pango.

How can I do this in Python?

Answer 1

You can try using fc-list on ubuntu and then split every line by ":" to get all fonts on ubuntu http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/hardy/man1/fc-list.1.html

map(lambda x : x.split(":")[1],commands.getstatusoutput('fc-list')[1].split("\n"))

While some of the font-names may contain symbols which python may not be able to print properly.