diff options
author | Alexandre Vassalotti <alexandre@peadrop.com> | 2008-05-16 00:03:33 (GMT) |
---|---|---|
committer | Alexandre Vassalotti <alexandre@peadrop.com> | 2008-05-16 00:03:33 (GMT) |
commit | 5f8ced2b959f306b3a1747a1f3daa4274b8c78b8 (patch) | |
tree | 75172061d8b246659f822876d22a10f7bcebeb0b /Doc/library/textwrap.rst | |
parent | a79e33e039530e5ca62f5dc19981cf76f4dcf824 (diff) | |
download | cpython-5f8ced2b959f306b3a1747a1f3daa4274b8c78b8.zip cpython-5f8ced2b959f306b3a1747a1f3daa4274b8c78b8.tar.gz cpython-5f8ced2b959f306b3a1747a1f3daa4274b8c78b8.tar.bz2 |
Merged revisions 62998-63003,63005-63006,63009-63012,63014-63017,63019-63020,63022-63024,63026-63029,63031-63041,63043-63045,63047-63054,63056-63062 via svnmerge from
svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/trunk
........
r62998 | andrew.kuchling | 2008-05-10 15:51:55 -0400 (Sat, 10 May 2008) | 7 lines
#1858 from Tarek Ziade:
Allow multiple repositories in .pypirc; see http://wiki.python.org/moin/EnhancedPyPI
for discussion.
The patch is slightly revised from Tarek's last patch: I've simplified
the PyPIRCCommand.finalize_options() method to not look at sys.argv.
Tests still pass.
........
r63000 | alexandre.vassalotti | 2008-05-10 15:59:16 -0400 (Sat, 10 May 2008) | 5 lines
Cleaned up io._BytesIO.write().
I am amazed that the old code, for inserting null-bytes, actually
worked. Who wrote that thing? Oh, it is me... doh.
........
r63002 | brett.cannon | 2008-05-10 16:52:01 -0400 (Sat, 10 May 2008) | 2 lines
Revert r62998 as it broke the build (seems distutils.config is missing).
........
r63014 | andrew.kuchling | 2008-05-10 18:12:38 -0400 (Sat, 10 May 2008) | 1 line
#1858: add distutils.config module
........
r63027 | brett.cannon | 2008-05-10 21:09:32 -0400 (Sat, 10 May 2008) | 2 lines
Flesh out the 3.0 deprecation to suggest using the ctypes module.
........
r63028 | skip.montanaro | 2008-05-10 22:59:30 -0400 (Sat, 10 May 2008) | 4 lines
Copied two versions of the example from the interactive session. Delete
one.
........
r63037 | georg.brandl | 2008-05-11 03:02:17 -0400 (Sun, 11 May 2008) | 2 lines
reload() takes the module itself.
........
r63038 | alexandre.vassalotti | 2008-05-11 03:06:04 -0400 (Sun, 11 May 2008) | 4 lines
Added test framework for handling module renames.
Factored the import guard in test_py3kwarn.TestStdlibRemovals into
a context manager, namely test_support.CleanImport.
........
r63039 | georg.brandl | 2008-05-11 03:06:05 -0400 (Sun, 11 May 2008) | 2 lines
#2742: ``''`` is not converted to NULL in getaddrinfo.
........
r63040 | alexandre.vassalotti | 2008-05-11 03:08:12 -0400 (Sun, 11 May 2008) | 2 lines
Fixed typo in a comment of test_support.CleanImport.
........
r63041 | alexandre.vassalotti | 2008-05-11 03:10:25 -0400 (Sun, 11 May 2008) | 2 lines
Removed a dead line of code.
........
r63043 | georg.brandl | 2008-05-11 04:47:53 -0400 (Sun, 11 May 2008) | 2 lines
#2812: document property.getter/setter/deleter.
........
r63049 | georg.brandl | 2008-05-11 05:06:30 -0400 (Sun, 11 May 2008) | 2 lines
#1153769: document PEP 237 changes to string formatting.
........
r63050 | georg.brandl | 2008-05-11 05:11:40 -0400 (Sun, 11 May 2008) | 2 lines
#2809: elaborate str.split docstring a bit.
........
r63051 | georg.brandl | 2008-05-11 06:13:59 -0400 (Sun, 11 May 2008) | 2 lines
Fix typo.
........
r63052 | georg.brandl | 2008-05-11 06:33:27 -0400 (Sun, 11 May 2008) | 2 lines
#2709: clarification.
........
r63053 | georg.brandl | 2008-05-11 06:42:28 -0400 (Sun, 11 May 2008) | 2 lines
#2659: add ``break_on_hyphens`` to TextWrapper.
........
r63057 | georg.brandl | 2008-05-11 06:59:39 -0400 (Sun, 11 May 2008) | 2 lines
#2741: clarification of value range for address_family.
........
r63058 | georg.brandl | 2008-05-11 07:09:35 -0400 (Sun, 11 May 2008) | 2 lines
#2452: timeout is used for all blocking operations.
........
r63059 | andrew.kuchling | 2008-05-11 09:33:56 -0400 (Sun, 11 May 2008) | 2 lines
#1792: Improve performance of marshal.dumps() on large objects by increasing
the size of the buffer more quickly.
........
r63060 | andrew.kuchling | 2008-05-11 10:00:00 -0400 (Sun, 11 May 2008) | 1 line
#1858: re-apply patch for this, adding the missing files
........
r63061 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-05-11 10:13:25 -0400 (Sun, 11 May 2008) | 2 lines
Add the "until" command to pdb
........
r63062 | georg.brandl | 2008-05-11 10:17:13 -0400 (Sun, 11 May 2008) | 2 lines
Add some sentence endings.
........
Diffstat (limited to 'Doc/library/textwrap.rst')
-rw-r--r-- | Doc/library/textwrap.rst | 18 |
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/library/textwrap.rst b/Doc/library/textwrap.rst index 243e43c..a18a801 100644 --- a/Doc/library/textwrap.rst +++ b/Doc/library/textwrap.rst @@ -39,6 +39,10 @@ instance and calling a single method on it. That instance is not reused, so for applications that wrap/fill many text strings, it will be more efficient for you to create your own :class:`TextWrapper` object. +Text is preferably wrapped on whitespaces and right after the hyphens in +hyphenated words; only then will long words be broken if necessary, unless +:attr:`TextWrapper.break_long_words` is set to false. + An additional utility function, :func:`dedent`, is provided to remove indentation from strings that have unwanted whitespace to the left of the text. @@ -167,10 +171,22 @@ indentation from strings that have unwanted whitespace to the left of the text. than :attr:`width`. (Long words will be put on a line by themselves, in order to minimize the amount by which :attr:`width` is exceeded.) + + .. attribute:: break_on_hyphens + + (default: ``True``) If true, wrapping will occur preferably on whitespaces + and right after hyphens in compound words, as it is customary in English. + If false, only whitespaces will be considered as potentially good places + for line breaks, but you need to set :attr:`break_long_words` to false if + you want truly insecable words. Default behaviour in previous versions + was to always allow breaking hyphenated words. + + .. versionadded:: 2.6 + + :class:`TextWrapper` also provides two public methods, analogous to the module-level convenience functions: - .. method:: wrap(text) Wraps the single paragraph in *text* (a string) so every line is at most |