Re: [stdlib-sig] textwrap module and hyphenation

Le samedi 19 avril 2008 à 00:08 -0700, Brett Cannon a écrit :

On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 11:18 PM, Sylvain Fourmanoit wrote:

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I just noticed the textwrap module in the standard library will break and line-wrap hyphenated words given the opportunity:

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from textwrap import wrap wrap('yaba daba-doo', width=10) ['yaba daba-', 'doo']

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I personally don't think so as you could easily just walk the list and just concatenate the hyphenated words.

But then the words wouldn't be wrapped properly, would they ? In the above example, if you join the two strings together, the result is more than 10 chars long. I think this feature makes sense, and doesn't really clutter the API. In the meantime, a workaround is to use other unicode hyphens (*) in order to get the desired result, e.g.:

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print(" | ".join(textwrap.wrap('yaba daba-doo', width=10))) yaba daba- | doo >>> print(" | ".join(textwrap.wrap('yaba daba\u2010doo', width=10))) yaba | daba­‐doo

(*) http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/00ad/index.htm http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/2010/index.htm