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diff --git a/Doc/lib/libtextwrap.tex b/Doc/lib/libtextwrap.tex index 9fb0816..38f9b03 100644 --- a/Doc/lib/libtextwrap.tex +++ b/Doc/lib/libtextwrap.tex @@ -47,12 +47,17 @@ remove indentation from strings that have unwanted whitespace to the left of the text. \begin{funcdesc}{dedent}{text} -Remove any whitespace that can be uniformly removed from the left -of every line in \var{text}. +Remove any common leading whitespace from every line in \var{text}. -This is typically used to make triple-quoted strings line up with -the left edge of screen/whatever, while still presenting it in the -source code in indented form. +This can be used to make triple-quoted strings line up with the left +edge of the display, while still presenting them in the source code +in indented form. + +Note that tabs and spaces are both treated as whitespace, but they are +not equal: the lines \code{" {} hello"} and \code{"\textbackslash{}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.) For example: \begin{verbatim} |