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| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/library/textwrap.rst | 3 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Lib/textwrap.py | 6 |
2 files changed, 6 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/library/textwrap.rst b/Doc/library/textwrap.rst index d254466..0f11ef4 100644 --- a/Doc/library/textwrap.rst +++ b/Doc/library/textwrap.rst @@ -77,6 +77,9 @@ functions should be good enough; otherwise, you should use an instance of equal: the lines ``" hello"`` and ``"\thello"`` are considered to have no common leading whitespace. + Lines containing only whitespace are ignored in the input and normalized to a + single newline character in the output. + For example:: def test(): 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. |