Issue 2659: textwrap handling of hyphenation (original) (raw)

Created on 2008-04-19 20:00 by fourmanoit, last changed 2022-04-11 14:56 by admin. This issue is now closed.

Messages (5)
msg65635 - (view)	Author: Sylvain Fourmanoit (fourmanoit)	Date: 2008-04-19 20:00
The textwrap module in standard library breaks hyphenated words given the opportunity; I don't think that's absolutely obvious from the current doc, and it's something worth mentioning. Here is a short addition to the library reference guide. Initial discussion started here: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/stdlib-sig/2008-April/000265.html
msg65636 - (view)	Author: Sylvain Fourmanoit (fourmanoit)	Date: 2008-04-19 20:07
I also think it would be nice if a public interface to completely avoid breaking hyphenated words would be included; patch included: it's pretty light, and should have no impact on any code currently using textwrap.
msg65653 - (view)	Author: Antoine Pitrou (pitrou) *	Date: 2008-04-20 23:03
Two things: - I think the added argument should come at the end of the argument list, so that code currently passing `drop_whitespace` positionally isn't broken by the change - it would be nice to have unit tests
msg65654 - (view)	Author: Sylvain Fourmanoit (fourmanoit)	Date: 2008-04-20 23:41
Thanks for the feedback. Enclosed patch: - moves the added "break_on_hyphens" argument at the end of the argument list - adds a unit test for the new attribute
msg66618 - (view)	Author: Georg Brandl (georg.brandl) *	Date: 2008-05-11 10:42
Thanks for the patch! Reviewed and committed as r63053.