Module textwrap :: Class TextWrapper
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_ClassType TextWrapper


Object for wrapping/filling text.  The public interface consists of
the wrap() and fill() methods; the other methods are just there for
subclasses to override in order to tweak the default behaviour.
If you want to completely replace the main wrapping algorithm,
you'll probably have to override _wrap_chunks().

Several instance attributes control various aspects of wrapping:
  width (default: 70)
    the maximum width of wrapped lines (unless break_long_words
    is false)
  initial_indent (default: "")
    string that will be prepended to the first line of wrapped
    output.  Counts towards the line's width.
  subsequent_indent (default: "")
    string that will be prepended to all lines save the first
    of wrapped output; also counts towards each line's width.
  expand_tabs (default: true)
    Expand tabs in input text to spaces before further processing.
    Each tab will become 1 .. 8 spaces, depending on its position in
    its line.  If false, each tab is treated as a single character.
  replace_whitespace (default: true)
    Replace all whitespace characters in the input text by spaces
    after tab expansion.  Note that if expand_tabs is false and
    replace_whitespace is true, every tab will be converted to a
    single space!
  fix_sentence_endings (default: false)
    Ensure that sentence-ending punctuation is always followed
    by two spaces.  Off by default because the algorithm is
    (unavoidably) imperfect.
  break_long_words (default: true)
    Break words longer than 'width'.  If false, those words will not
    be broken, and some lines might be longer than 'width'.

Instance Methods [hide private]
 
__init__(self, width=70, initial_indent='', subsequent_indent='', expand_tabs=True, replace_whitespace=True, fix_sentence_endings=False, break_long_words=True)
 
_munge_whitespace(self, text)
_munge_whitespace(text : string) -> string
 
_split(self, text)
_split(text : string) -> [string]
 
_fix_sentence_endings(self, chunks)
_fix_sentence_endings(chunks : [string])
 
_handle_long_word(self, reversed_chunks, cur_line, cur_len, width)
_handle_long_word(chunks : [string], cur_line : [string], cur_len : int, width : int)
 
_wrap_chunks(self, chunks)
_wrap_chunks(chunks : [string]) -> [string]
 
wrap(self, text)
wrap(text : string) -> [string]
 
fill(self, text)
fill(text : string) -> string
Class Variables [hide private]
  whitespace_trans = '\x00\x01\x02\x03\x04\x05\x06\x07\x08 \...
  unicode_whitespace_trans = {9: 32, 10: 32, 11: 32, 12: 32, 13:...
  uspace = 32
  wordsep_re = re.compile(r'(\s+|[^\s\w]*\w+[a-zA-Z]-(?=\w+[a-zA...
  sentence_end_re = re.compile(r'[abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz][\....
  x = 32
Method Details [hide private]

_munge_whitespace(self, text)

 
_munge_whitespace(text : string) -> string

        Munge whitespace in text: expand tabs and convert all other
        whitespace characters to spaces.  Eg. " foo     bar

baz"
        becomes " foo    bar  baz".
        

_split(self, text)

 
_split(text : string) -> [string]

Split the text to wrap into indivisible chunks.  Chunks are
not quite the same as words; see wrap_chunks() for full
details.  As an example, the text
  Look, goof-ball -- use the -b option!
breaks into the following chunks:
  'Look,', ' ', 'goof-', 'ball', ' ', '--', ' ',
  'use', ' ', 'the', ' ', '-b', ' ', 'option!'

_fix_sentence_endings(self, chunks)

 
_fix_sentence_endings(chunks : [string])

        Correct for sentence endings buried in 'chunks'.  Eg. when the
        original text contains "... foo.
Bar ...", munge_whitespace()
        and split() will convert that to [..., "foo.", " ", "Bar", ...]
        which has one too few spaces; this method simply changes the one
        space to two.
        

_handle_long_word(self, reversed_chunks, cur_line, cur_len, width)

 
_handle_long_word(chunks : [string],
                     cur_line : [string],
                     cur_len : int, width : int)

Handle a chunk of text (most likely a word, not whitespace) that
is too long to fit in any line.

_wrap_chunks(self, chunks)

 

_wrap_chunks(chunks : [string]) -> [string]

Wrap a sequence of text chunks and return a list of lines of length 'self.width' or less. (If 'break_long_words' is false, some lines may be longer than this.) Chunks correspond roughly to words and the whitespace between them: each chunk is indivisible (modulo 'break_long_words'), but a line break can come between any two chunks. Chunks should not have internal whitespace; ie. a chunk is either all whitespace or a "word". Whitespace chunks will be removed from the beginning and end of lines, but apart from that whitespace is preserved.

wrap(self, text)

 

wrap(text : string) -> [string]

Reformat the single paragraph in 'text' so it fits in lines of no more than 'self.width' columns, and return a list of wrapped lines. Tabs in 'text' are expanded with string.expandtabs(), and all other whitespace characters (including newline) are converted to space.

fill(self, text)

 

fill(text : string) -> string

Reformat the single paragraph in 'text' to fit in lines of no more than 'self.width' columns, and return a new string containing the entire wrapped paragraph.


Class Variable Details [hide private]

whitespace_trans

Value:
'\x00\x01\x02\x03\x04\x05\x06\x07\x08     \x0e\x0f\x10\x11\x12\x13\x14\
\x15\x16\x17\x18\x19\x1a\x1b\x1c\x1d\x1e\x1f !"#$%&\'()*+,-./012345678\
9:;<=>?@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[\\]^_`abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz{|}\
~\x7f\x80\x81\x82\x83\x84\x85\x86\x87\x88\x89\x8a\x8b\x8c\x8d\x8e\x8f\\
x90\x91\x92\x93\x94\x95\x96\x97\x98\x99\x9a\x9b\x9c\x9d\x9e\x9f\xa0\xa\
1\xa2\xa3\xa4\xa5\xa6\xa7\xa8\xa9\xaa\xab\xac\xad\xae\xaf\xb0\xb1\xb2\\
xb3\xb4\xb5\xb6\xb7\xb8\xb9\xba\xbb\xbc\xbd\xbe\xbf\xc0\xc1\xc2\xc3\xc\
4\xc5\xc6\xc7\xc8\xc9\xca\xcb\xcc\xcd\xce\xcf\xd0\xd1\xd2\xd3\xd4\xd5\\
...

unicode_whitespace_trans

Value:
{9: 32, 10: 32, 11: 32, 12: 32, 13: 32, 32: 32}

wordsep_re

Value:
re.compile(r'(\s+|[^\s\w]*\w+[a-zA-Z]-(?=\w+[a-zA-Z])|(?<=[\w!"\'&\.,\\
?])-{2,}(?=\w))')

sentence_end_re

Value:
re.compile(r'[abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz][\.!\?]["\']?')