[Python-Dev] textwrap.py

[Guido van Rossum]

> I always thought the Emacs folks adopted it because it made the
> filling algorithms easier to deal with the difference between:
> 
>     ...on a stick with no mustard.  At least, that's how I prefer my...
> 
> and
> 
>     ...in love with Dr. Frankenstein, and who once noticed a watermelon...

You've got that backwards of course.  If we didn't want two spaces
after a full stop, we wouldn't need any of this nonsense.

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)