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| author | Miss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com> | 2019-06-30 04:38:11 (GMT) |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2019-06-30 04:38:11 (GMT) |
| commit | e2e41cd114ae761fbfee4e7c6539f5df5c8c7116 (patch) | |
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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.
(cherry picked from commit eb97b9211e7c99841d6cae8c63893b3525d5a401)
Co-authored-by: tmblweed <tmblweed@users.noreply.github.com>
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diff --git a/Lib/textwrap.py b/Lib/textwrap.py index 8103f34..30e693c 100644 --- a/Lib/textwrap.py +++ b/Lib/textwrap.py @@ -420,9 +420,9 @@ def dedent(text): Note that tabs and spaces are both treated as whitespace, but they are not equal: the lines " hello" and "\\thello" are - considered to have no common leading whitespace. (This behaviour is - new in Python 2.5; older versions of this module incorrectly - expanded tabs before searching for common leading whitespace.) + considered to have no common leading whitespace. + + Entirely blank lines are normalized to a newline character. """ # Look for the longest leading string of spaces and tabs common to # all lines. |