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authorGreg Ward <gward@python.net>2002-08-22 21:04:21 (GMT)
committerGreg Ward <gward@python.net>2002-08-22 21:04:21 (GMT)
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Fix SF bug #596434: tweak wordsep_re so "--foo-bar" now splits
into /--foo-/bar/ rather than /--/foo-/bar/. Needed for Optik and Docutils to handle Unix-style command-line options properly.
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diff --git a/Lib/textwrap.py b/Lib/textwrap.py
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@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ class TextWrapper:
# Hello/ /there/ /--/ /you/ /goof-/ball,/ /use/ /the/ /-b/ /option!
# (after stripping out empty strings).
wordsep_re = re.compile(r'(\s+|' # any whitespace
- r'\w{2,}-(?=\w{2,})|' # hyphenated words
+ r'-*\w{2,}-(?=\w{2,})|' # hyphenated words
r'(?<=\w)-{2,}(?=\w))') # em-dash
# XXX will there be a locale-or-charset-aware version of