[issue15510] textwrap.wrap('') returns empty list

Antoine Pitrou report at bugs.python.org
Fri Aug 3 23:42:48 CEST 2012


Antoine Pitrou added the comment:

> For an empty string, sure -- for a string with nothing but white space, 
> no:

> --> wrap('   ')
> []

That's because wrap() suppresses extra whitespace by default. Once extra whitespace is suppressed, you are left with an empty text, meaning an empty list of lines. That's perfectly logical.

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