[New-bugs-announce] [issue18585] Add a text truncation function

[Antoine Pitrou]

New submission from Antoine Pitrou:

Following patch proposed to add a function named textwrap.summarize():

   >>> textwrap.summarize("Hello  world!", width=12)
   'Hello world!'
   >>> textwrap.summarize("Hello  world!", width=11)
   'Hello (...)'

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components: Library (Lib)
files: summarize.patch
keywords: patch
messages: 193862
nosy: barry, georg.brandl, pitrou
priority: normal
severity: normal
stage: patch review
status: open
title: Add a text truncation function
type: enhancement
versions: Python 3.4
Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file31072/summarize.patch

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