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| author | Miss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com> | 2019-06-29 21:41:55 -0700 |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2019-06-29 21:41:55 -0700 |
| commit | bc60c47169d1cb33f6fbe1ed64c09a536e82e1c3 (patch) | |
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[2.7] bpo-30754: Document textwrap.dedent blank line behavior. (GH-14469) (GH-14475)
* Added documentation for textwrap.dedent behavior.
(cherry picked from commit eb97b9211e7c99841d6cae8c63893b3525d5a401)
Co-authored-by: tmblweed <tmblweed@users.noreply.github.com>
https://bugs.python.org/issue30754
| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/library/textwrap.rst | 3 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Lib/textwrap.py | 2 |
2 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/library/textwrap.rst b/Doc/library/textwrap.rst index a50600e464..6b0decb5a6 100644 --- a/Doc/library/textwrap.rst +++ b/Doc/library/textwrap.rst @@ -66,6 +66,9 @@ indentation from strings that have unwanted whitespace to the left of the text. of this module incorrectly expanded tabs before searching for common leading whitespace.) + Lines containing only whitespace are ignored in the input and normalized to a + single newline character in the output. + For example:: def test(): diff --git a/Lib/textwrap.py b/Lib/textwrap.py index 5c2e4fa523..8d91ffa081 100644 --- a/Lib/textwrap.py +++ b/Lib/textwrap.py @@ -383,6 +383,8 @@ def dedent(text): considered to have no common leading whitespace. (This behaviour is new in Python 2.5; older versions of this module incorrectly expanded tabs before searching for common leading whitespace.) + + Entirely blank lines are normalized to a newline character. """ # Look for the longest leading string of spaces and tabs common to # all lines. |