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authorBrett Cannon <brett@python.org>2013-10-04 15:38:59 (GMT)
committerBrett Cannon <brett@python.org>2013-10-04 15:38:59 (GMT)
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Issue #18716: Deprecate the formatter module
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1 files changed, 4 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/pydoc.py b/Lib/pydoc.py
index bc64407..174311c 100755
--- a/Lib/pydoc.py
+++ b/Lib/pydoc.py
@@ -1915,11 +1915,10 @@ module "pydoc_data.topics" could not be found.
if more_xrefs:
xrefs = (xrefs or '') + ' ' + more_xrefs
if xrefs:
- import formatter
- buffer = io.StringIO()
- formatter.DumbWriter(buffer).send_flowing_data(
- 'Related help topics: ' + ', '.join(xrefs.split()) + '\n')
- self.output.write('\n%s\n' % buffer.getvalue())
+ import textwrap
+ text = 'Related help topics: ' + ', '.join(xrefs.split()) + '\n'
+ wrapped_text = textwrap.wrap(text, 72)
+ self.output.write('\n%s\n' % ''.join(wrapped_text))
def _gettopic(self, topic, more_xrefs=''):
"""Return unbuffered tuple of (topic, xrefs).