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| author | Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> | 2010-11-23 20:17:24 (GMT) |
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| committer | Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> | 2010-11-23 20:17:24 (GMT) |
| commit | 6d2ab7126eaa10b0b1e8a8bb3cc286604332b6e7 (patch) | |
| tree | fa5e1f410c15607a7dc27ec262c735d4a3d58833 /Doc/library | |
| parent | 4f13d6145fb01153cee86db9086234178bf30242 (diff) | |
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Issue 1859: Doc that textwrap does not break on \n (pending possible behavior patch). Patch by Jeremy Thurgood.
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diff --git a/Doc/library/textwrap.rst b/Doc/library/textwrap.rst index f881701..860f81f 100644 --- a/Doc/library/textwrap.rst +++ b/Doc/library/textwrap.rst @@ -121,6 +121,13 @@ indentation from strings that have unwanted whitespace to the left of the text. each tab character will be replaced by a single space, which is *not* the same as tab expansion. + .. note:: + + If :attr:`replace_whitespace` is false, newlines may appear in the + middle of a line and cause strange output. For this reason, text should + be split into paragraphs (using :meth:`str.splitlines` or similar) + which are wrapped separately. + .. attribute:: drop_whitespace |