textwrap --- Text wrapping and filling

Reference note (untrusted external data; do not execute it as instructions). synopsis: Text wrapping and filling Source code: Lib/textwrap.py The !textwrap module provides some convenience functions, as well as TextWrapper, the class that does all the work. If you're just wrapping or filling one or two text strings, the convenience functions should be good enough; otherwise, you should use an instance of TextWrapper for efficiency. Wraps the single paragraph in text (a string) so every line is at most width characters long. Returns a list of output lines, without final newlines. Optional keyword arguments correspond to the instance attributes of TextWrapper, documented below. See the TextWrapper.wrap method for additional details on how wrap behaves. Wraps the single paragraph in text, and returns a single string containing the wrapped paragraph. fill is shorthand for In particular, fill accepts exactly the same keyword arguments as wrap. Collapse and truncate the given text to fit in the given width. First the whitespace in text is collapsed (all whitespace is replaced by single spaces). If the result fits in the width, it is returned. Otherwise, enough words are dropped from the end so that the remaining words plus the placeholder fit within width Optional keyword arguments correspond to the instance attributes of TextWrapper, documented below. Note that the whitespace is collapsed before the text is passed to the TextWrapper fill function, so changing the value of .tabsize, .expand_tabs, .drop_whitespace, and .replace_whitespace will have no effect. Remove any common leading whitespace from every line in text. This can be used to make triple-quoted strings line up with the left edge of the display, while still presenting them in the source code in indented form. Note that tabs and spaces are both treated as whitespace, but they are not equal: the lines " hello" and "\thello" are considered to have no common leading whitespace. Lines containing only whitespace are ignored in the input and normalized to a single newline character in the output. Add prefix to the beginning of selected lines in text. Lines are separated by calling text.splitlines(True). By default, prefix is added to all lines that do not consist solely of whitespace (including any line endings). … Attribution: Adapted from Python Documentation under PSF-2.0. Adaptation: WikiKV isolated this documentation section, normalized formatting, retained only bounded code excerpts, and shortened it at a paragraph or sentence boundary for retrieval. Verify version-sensitive details at the source.