[Python-bugs-list] [ python-Bugs-577106 ] textwrap module can't cope with newlines

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Bugs item #577106, was opened at 2002-07-03 19:08
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Category: Python Library
Group: Python 2.3
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Jon Ribbens (jribbens)
Assigned to: Greg Ward (gward)
Summary: textwrap module can't cope with newlines

Initial Comment:
The textwrap module cannot cope with newlines. By 
default, it replaces them with spaces, which is very 
annoying. However, this is livable with since you can 
manually set replace_whitespace to what its default 
should be, i.e. False.

However, the textwrap module appears not to know that 
a newline should reset the current column to zero, so 
even with replace_whitespace set to False, it does not 
wrap paragraphs properly.

Oh yes, and expand_tabs should be False by default as 
well ;-)

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>Comment By: Jon Ribbens (jribbens)
Date: 2002-07-03 19:29

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I have attached a patch which fixes the newlines problem. I'm 
afraid I think this module is rather a mess though.

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