Wrap a single paragraph of text, returning a list of wrapped lines.

Reformat the single paragraph in 'text' so it fits in lines of no
more than 'width' columns, and return a list of wrapped lines.  By
default, tabs in 'text' are expanded with string.expandtabs(), and
all other whitespace characters (including newline) are converted to
space.  See TextWrapper class for available keyword args to customize
wrapping behaviour.

fill(text, width=70, **kwargs)

source code

Fill a single paragraph of text, returning a new string.

Reformat the single paragraph in 'text' to fit in lines of no more
than 'width' columns, and return a new string containing the entire
wrapped paragraph.  As with wrap(), tabs are expanded and other
whitespace characters converted to space.  See TextWrapper class for
available keyword args to customize wrapping behaviour.

dedent(text)

source code

dedent(text : string) -> string

    Remove any whitespace than can be uniformly removed from the left
    of every line in `text`.

    This can be used e.g. to make triple-quoted strings line up with
    the left edge of screen/whatever, while still presenting it in the
    source code in indented form.

    For example:

        def test():
            # end first line with \ to avoid the empty line!
            s = '''            hello
              world
            '''
            print repr(s)          # prints '    hello
      world
    '
            print repr(dedent(s))  # prints 'hello
  world
'

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revision

Value:

'$Id: textwrap.py,v 1.32.8.2 2004/05/13 01:48:15 gward Exp $'