TextWrapper keepking line breaks?

Arnaud Delobelle arnodel at googlemail.com
Mon Mar 10 21:27:36 EDT 2008


On Mar 10, 11:31 pm, js <ebgs... at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi list,
>
> Can I make TextWrapper keep line breaks in the text?
>
> For example,
>
> >>> s = "spam\nham"
> >>> print wrap(s)
>
> spam
> ham
>
> As far as I can tell, there seems no way to do this,
> but before writing my own solution, I want to know whether
> the solution already exists or not.
>
> Thanks.

Don't know but you could write:

>>> import textwrap
>>> def wraplines(text):
...     return '\n'.join(textwrap.fill(line) for line in
text.split('\n'))
...
>>> s = "spam\nham"
>>> print wraplines(s)
spam
ham
>>>

HTH

--
Arnaud




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