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authortmblweed <tmblweed@users.noreply.github.com>2019-06-30 04:20:03 (GMT)
committerGregory P. Smith <greg@krypto.org>2019-06-30 04:20:03 (GMT)
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bpo-30754: Document textwrap.dedent blank line behavior. (GH-14469)
* Added documentation for textwrap.dedent behavior. * Remove an obsolete note about pre-2.5 behavior from the docstring.
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@@ -77,6 +77,9 @@ functions should be good enough; otherwise, you should use an instance of
equal: the lines ``" hello"`` and ``"\thello"`` are considered to have no
common leading whitespace.
+ Lines containing only whitespace are ignored in the input and normalized to a
+ single newline character in the output.
+
For example::
def test():