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-rw-r--r--Lib/test/test_textwrap.py31
-rw-r--r--Lib/textwrap.py27
-rw-r--r--Misc/NEWS3
3 files changed, 47 insertions, 14 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_textwrap.py b/Lib/test/test_textwrap.py
index a44184f..5a33c15 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_textwrap.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_textwrap.py
@@ -444,6 +444,37 @@ What a mess!
text = "aa \xe4\xe4-\xe4\xe4"
self.check_wrap(text, 7, ["aa \xe4\xe4-", "\xe4\xe4"])
+ def test_non_breaking_space(self):
+ text = 'This is a sentence with non-breaking\N{NO-BREAK SPACE}space.'
+
+ self.check_wrap(text, 20,
+ ['This is a sentence',
+ 'with non-',
+ 'breaking\N{NO-BREAK SPACE}space.'],
+ break_on_hyphens=True)
+
+ self.check_wrap(text, 20,
+ ['This is a sentence',
+ 'with',
+ 'non-breaking\N{NO-BREAK SPACE}space.'],
+ break_on_hyphens=False)
+
+ def test_narrow_non_breaking_space(self):
+ text = ('This is a sentence with non-breaking'
+ '\N{NARROW NO-BREAK SPACE}space.')
+
+ self.check_wrap(text, 20,
+ ['This is a sentence',
+ 'with non-',
+ 'breaking\N{NARROW NO-BREAK SPACE}space.'],
+ break_on_hyphens=True)
+
+ self.check_wrap(text, 20,
+ ['This is a sentence',
+ 'with',
+ 'non-breaking\N{NARROW NO-BREAK SPACE}space.'],
+ break_on_hyphens=False)
+
class MaxLinesTestCase(BaseTestCase):
text = "Hello there, how are you this fine day? I'm glad to hear it!"
diff --git a/Lib/textwrap.py b/Lib/textwrap.py
index 05e0306..0c18dc5 100644
--- a/Lib/textwrap.py
+++ b/Lib/textwrap.py
@@ -10,13 +10,8 @@ import re
__all__ = ['TextWrapper', 'wrap', 'fill', 'dedent', 'indent', 'shorten']
# Hardcode the recognized whitespace characters to the US-ASCII
-# whitespace characters. The main reason for doing this is that in
-# ISO-8859-1, 0xa0 is non-breaking whitespace, so in certain locales
-# that character winds up in string.whitespace. Respecting
-# string.whitespace in those cases would 1) make textwrap treat 0xa0 the
-# same as any other whitespace char, which is clearly wrong (it's a
-# *non-breaking* space), 2) possibly cause problems with Unicode,
-# since 0xa0 is not in range(128).
+# whitespace characters. The main reason for doing this is that
+# some Unicode spaces (like \u00a0) are non-breaking whitespaces.
_whitespace = '\t\n\x0b\x0c\r '
class TextWrapper:
@@ -81,29 +76,34 @@ class TextWrapper:
# (after stripping out empty strings).
word_punct = r'[\w!"\'&.,?]'
letter = r'[^\d\W]'
+ whitespace = r'[%s]' % re.escape(_whitespace)
+ nowhitespace = '[^' + whitespace[1:]
wordsep_re = re.compile(r'''
( # any whitespace
- \s+
+ %(ws)s+
| # em-dash between words
(?<=%(wp)s) -{2,} (?=\w)
| # word, possibly hyphenated
- \S+? (?:
+ %(nws)s+? (?:
# hyphenated word
-(?: (?<=%(lt)s{2}-) | (?<=%(lt)s-%(lt)s-))
(?= %(lt)s -? %(lt)s)
| # end of word
- (?=\s|\Z)
+ (?=%(ws)s|\Z)
| # em-dash
(?<=%(wp)s) (?=-{2,}\w)
)
- )''' % {'wp': word_punct, 'lt': letter}, re.VERBOSE)
- del word_punct, letter
+ )''' % {'wp': word_punct, 'lt': letter,
+ 'ws': whitespace, 'nws': nowhitespace},
+ re.VERBOSE)
+ del word_punct, letter, nowhitespace
# This less funky little regex just split on recognized spaces. E.g.
# "Hello there -- you goof-ball, use the -b option!"
# splits into
# Hello/ /there/ /--/ /you/ /goof-ball,/ /use/ /the/ /-b/ /option!/
- wordsep_simple_re = re.compile(r'(\s+)')
+ wordsep_simple_re = re.compile(r'(%s+)' % whitespace)
+ del whitespace
# XXX this is not locale- or charset-aware -- string.lowercase
# is US-ASCII only (and therefore English-only)
@@ -112,7 +112,6 @@ class TextWrapper:
r'[\"\']?' # optional end-of-quote
r'\Z') # end of chunk
-
def __init__(self,
width=70,
initial_indent="",
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index ea90cbb..c440571 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -113,6 +113,9 @@ Core and Builtins
Library
-------
+- Issue #20491: The textwrap.TextWrapper class now honors non-breaking spaces.
+ Based on patch by Kaarle Ritvanen.
+
- Issue #28353: os.fwalk() no longer fails on broken links.
- Issue #25464: Fixed HList.header_exists() in tkinter.tix module by addin