[New-bugs-announce] [issue15497] correct characters in TextWrapper.replace_whitespace docs

[Chris Jerdonek]

New submission from Chris Jerdonek:

This issue is to correct the list of whitespace characters to replace in the documentation for the textwrap module's TextWrapper.replace_whitespace attribute.

The documentation says this list is string.whitespace:

http://docs.python.org/dev/library/textwrap.html#textwrap.TextWrapper.replace_whitespace

However, the code deliberately avoids using string.whitespace and uses a hard-coded list of characters instead.  For example, see this code comment:

# Hardcode the recognized whitespace characters to the US-ASCII
# whitespace characters.  The main reason for doing this is that in
# ISO-8859-1, 0xa0 is non-breaking whitespace, so in certain locales
# that character winds up in string.whitespace....

http://hg.python.org/cpython/file/917295aaad76/Lib/textwrap.py#l12

Patch attached.

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assignee: docs at python
components: Documentation
files: issue-textwrap-whitespace.patch
keywords: easy, patch
messages: 166855
nosy: cjerdonek, docs at python
priority: normal
severity: normal
stage: patch review
status: open
title: correct characters in TextWrapper.replace_whitespace docs
versions: Python 2.7, Python 3.3
Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file26591/issue-textwrap-whitespace.patch

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