Feature Requests item #1702681, was opened at 2007-04-18 01:40
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Submitted By: Matt Kraai (kraai)
>Assigned to: Greg Ward (gward)
Summary: Prevent textwrap from breaking words at hyphens
Initial Comment:
I'm using textwrap to wrap text that contains URLs that contain hyphens. When
it wraps these URLs after a hyphen, it breaks the URL. I wish there was a way
to prevent it from doing so.
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>Comment By: Raymond Hettinger (rhettinger)
Date: 2007-04-19 01:37
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FWIW, one workaround is to "monkey patch" the module:
textwrap.TextWrapper.wordsep_re =
re.compile(r'(\s+|(?<=[\w\!\"\'\&\.\,\?])-{2,}(?=\w))')
Another workaround is to "hide" the hyphens during wrapping and then
restore them.
def myfill(text, width=70, **kwargs):
althyphen = chr(127)
text = text.replace('-', althyphen)
result = wrap(text, width, **kwargs)
return result.replace(althyphen, '-')
That being said, I'm +1 on adding a keyword argument treating hyphens as
non-breaking.
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