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| author | Hynek Schlawack <hs@ox.cx> | 2012-05-19 11:33:11 (GMT) |
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| committer | Hynek Schlawack <hs@ox.cx> | 2012-05-19 11:33:11 (GMT) |
| commit | d527259f14dd6094f0a417ea83e66b8f233e38a3 (patch) | |
| tree | cdafd33bae9ac524e1c99a2f4e72a31fca25d4c1 /Lib/textwrap.py | |
| parent | d34b57a9a2810e79d6f6aa7dc12832c4e4b214a5 (diff) | |
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#13152: Allow to specify a custom tabsize for expanding tabs in textwrap
Patch by John Feuerstein.
Diffstat (limited to 'Lib/textwrap.py')
| -rw-r--r-- | Lib/textwrap.py | 13 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/textwrap.py b/Lib/textwrap.py index 0aeba3f..66ccf2b 100644 --- a/Lib/textwrap.py +++ b/Lib/textwrap.py @@ -39,8 +39,11 @@ class TextWrapper: of wrapped output; also counts towards each line's width. expand_tabs (default: true) Expand tabs in input text to spaces before further processing. - Each tab will become 1 .. 8 spaces, depending on its position in - its line. If false, each tab is treated as a single character. + Each tab will become 0 .. 'tabsize' spaces, depending on its position + in its line. If false, each tab is treated as a single character. + tabsize (default: 8) + Expand tabs in input text to 0 .. 'tabsize' spaces, unless + 'expand_tabs' is false. replace_whitespace (default: true) Replace all whitespace characters in the input text by spaces after tab expansion. Note that if expand_tabs is false and @@ -100,7 +103,8 @@ class TextWrapper: fix_sentence_endings=False, break_long_words=True, drop_whitespace=True, - break_on_hyphens=True): + break_on_hyphens=True, + tabsize=8): self.width = width self.initial_indent = initial_indent self.subsequent_indent = subsequent_indent @@ -110,6 +114,7 @@ class TextWrapper: self.break_long_words = break_long_words self.drop_whitespace = drop_whitespace self.break_on_hyphens = break_on_hyphens + self.tabsize = tabsize # -- Private methods ----------------------------------------------- @@ -123,7 +128,7 @@ class TextWrapper: becomes " foo bar baz". """ if self.expand_tabs: - text = text.expandtabs() + text = text.expandtabs(self.tabsize) if self.replace_whitespace: text = text.translate(self.unicode_whitespace_trans) return text |