Force Python ast to emit lines no longer than $length

[Samuel Marks]

I ended up adding word-wrap support directly to my code-generation:
https://github.com/SamuelMarks/doctrans/commit/6147b21e168b66623aa1be95cb38b1969daa5147

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On Wed, Jan 20, 2021 at 2:05 PM Samuel Marks <samuelmarks at gmail.com> wrote:

> I've written a library that works at the ast level. Sometimes the
> generated output goes over the linter line length limit.
>
>
> "foo_bar_can_haz_foo_bar_can_haz_foo_bar_can_haz_foo_bar_can_haz_foo_bar_can_haz_foo_bar_can_haz"
>
> How do I generate this kind of code instead?
>
> "foo_bar_can_haz_foo_bar_can_haz_foo_bar_can_haz_"
> "foo_bar_can_haz_foo_bar_can_haz_foo_bar_can_haz"
>
> (also happy with the \ and parenthesised variants) [cross-posted:
> stackoverflow.com/q/65800797]
>
> The only thing I can think of doing—retaining support for 3.6, 3.7,
> 3.8, 3.9, and 3.10a4—is to contribute to both astor and the builtin
> ast.unparse…
>