textwrap.fill algorithm? (Difference with vim)

[Matěj Cepl]

On 2017-04-22, 01:01 GMT, Gregory Ewing wrote:
> I don't know what vim is doing, but if you tell Python you
> want lines no longer than 65 characters, it takes you at
> your word.

Oh, I’ve got it. textwrap.fill() (only in Python 2.*?) completely 
sucks with bytes, because of course it counts every byte as 
separate character for purpose of counting. All the text must be 
converted into unicode. It would be probably nice, if the 
textwrap documentation mentioned it.

Best,

Matěj

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