How to get width of a truetype font character in 1200ths of an inch with Python?

Question

I can get the height and width of a character in pixels with PIL (see below), but (unless I\'m mistaken) pixel size depends on the screen\'s DPI, which can vary. Instead what I\

Answer 1

This worked better for me:

def pixel_width(unicode_text): 
    width=len(unicode_text)*50 
    height=100 
    back_ground_color=(0,0,0) 
    font_size=64 
    font_color=(255,255,255) 

    im  =  Image.new ( "RGB", (width,height), back_ground_color ) 
    draw  =  ImageDraw.Draw (im) 
    unicode_font = ImageFont.truetype("./usr/share/fonts/truetype/dejavu/DejaVuSansMono.ttf", font_size) 
    draw.text ( (0,0), unicode_text, font=unicode_font, fill=font_color ) 
    im.save("/dev/shm/text.png") 
    box = Image.open("/dev/shm/text.png").getbbox() 
    return box[2] - box[0]