[Tim]
Note that regrtest.py also has a wrapper:
def printlist(x, width=70, indent=4): """Print the elements of a sequence to stdout.
Optional arg width (default 70) is the maximum line length. Optional arg indent (default 4) is the number of blanks with which to begin each line. """
[Greg Ward]
I think this one will probably stand; I've gotten to the point with my text-wrapping code where I'm reimplementing the various other text-wrappers people have mentioned on top of it, and regrtest.printlist() is just not a good fit. It's for printing lists compactly, not for filling text. Whatever.
regrtest's printlist is trivial to implement on top of the code you posted: def printlist(x, width=70, indent=4): guts = map(str, x) blanks = ' ' * indent w = textwrap.TextWrapper() print w.fill(' '.join(guts), width, blanks, blanks) TextWrapper certainly doesn't have to worry about changing the list into a string, all I want it is that it wrap a string, and it does.
Just make sure it handle the union of all possible desires, but has a simple and intuitive interface <wink>.
Right. Gotcha. Code coming up soon.
It's no more than 10x more elaborate than necessary, so ship it <wink>.