python 3 and Unicode line breaking

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Fri, 14 Jan 2011 14:26:09 -0800, leoboiko wrote:
...
> As for taking the time to provide information, I wonder if there was any
> technical problem that prevented you from seeing my reply to Stefan,
> sent Jan 14, 12:29PM? 

Presumably, since I haven't got it in my news client. This is not the 
first time.


> He asked how exacly the stdlib module “textwrap”
> differs from the Unicode algorithm, so I provided some commented
> examples.

Does this help?


http://packages.python.org/kitchen/api-text-display.html

  kitchen.text.display.wrap(text, width=70, initial_indent=u'',
  subsequent_indent=u'', encoding='utf-8', errors='replace')

    Works like we want textwrap.wrap() to work 
    [...]
    textwrap.wrap() from the python standard libray has two drawbacks
    that this attempts to fix:

       1. It does not handle textual width. It only operates on bytes or
          characters which are both inadequate (due to multi-byte and
          double width characters).
       2. It malforms lists and blocks.



-- 
Steven