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| author | Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> | 2010-11-23 20:25:19 (GMT) |
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| committer | Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> | 2010-11-23 20:25:19 (GMT) |
| commit | 8b7eef3413eb35f3486b4ffa3e7969b86f2678e1 (patch) | |
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| parent | 8d4a932e6c5d62658374c31f4e2f6c7a0411a0f1 (diff) | |
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Issue 1859: Document that textwrap does not break on \n
Merged from 86717
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diff --git a/Doc/library/textwrap.rst b/Doc/library/textwrap.rst index f66416f..8357013 100644 --- a/Doc/library/textwrap.rst +++ b/Doc/library/textwrap.rst @@ -117,6 +117,13 @@ 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 |