Many many Python tools have duplicating code related to getting console properties like width and height to provide pagination and cute progress bars. While the issue seems minor, making such features work crossplatform way requires many tuits. That's why it is highly desirable to have console module inside Python stdlib.

How to get console width:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/566746/how-to-get-console-window-width-in-python
http://code.activestate.com/recipes/440694-determine-size-of-console-window-on-windows/

PDCurses may contain some public domain code:
http://pdcurses.sourceforge.net/
BSD like licensed Console module from Fredrik Lundh:
http://effbot.org/zone/console-handbook.htm

Please propose on python-ideas before making a bug.

It is not a bug, but a "feature request".

Benjamin was using the term 'bug' as a synonym for 'issue in the tracker'.  The point is that a feature like this (a whole new module) is not an appropriate tracker item.  In most cases the procedure for getting a new module included in the stdlib is distinctly non-trivial and generally requires, among other things, that the module get proven by distribution via PyPI first.