On Mon, Feb 21, 2005, Karl Chen wrote:
A slightly tweaked wordsep_re: textwrap.TextWrapper.wordsep_re = \ re.compile(r'(\s+|' # any whitespace r'[^\s\w]*\w+[a-zA-Z]-(?=[a-zA-Z]\w+)|' # hyphenated words r'(?<=[\w\!\"\'\&\.\,\?])-{2,}(?=\w))') # em-dash print textwrap.fill('aaaaaaaaaa 2005-02-21', 18) behaves better: aaaaaaaaaa 2005-02-21
What do you think about changing the default wordsep_re?
Please post a patch to SF. If you're not familiar with the process, take a look at http://www.python.org/dev/dev_intro.html Another thing: I don't know whether you'll get this in direct e-mail; it's considered a bit rude for python-dev to use munged addresses. -- Aahz (aahz@pythoncraft.com) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/ "The joy of coding Python should be in seeing short, concise, readable classes that express a lot of action in a small amount of clear code -- not in reams of trivial code that bores the reader to death." --GvR