[Python-Dev] textwrap.py

[Fredrik Lundh]

Guido wrote:

> It also appears right that (human) typsetters did stretch the space
> between sentences more than the space between words when stretching a
> line to right-justify it.  In order to do that with a computer
> typesetting program, and to avoid it assuming a sentence ends after
> other use of periods (e.g. in "Mr. Lundh"), you have to tell it where
> the sentences end.  Double spacing is a convenient convention for
> that.

or you could use non-breaking spaces...

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