<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Aahz wrote: > > Trust the computer, the computer is your friend. > > However, the computer isn't a fuckin' mind reader. > > If you're going to post source code on the usenet, don't > have lines longer than 72 characters. Otherwise you'll > find your code has wrapped lines. This not only causes > syntax errors in your choose and print statements but > also fucks up the formatting of of printed paragraphs. > > Stupid human. >
I copy-and-pasted to a file named para1.py, then wrote the following python script with pyparsing to fix the erroneous line breaks. -- Paul =============================== from pyparsing import * extraLineBreak = White(" ",exact=1) + LineEnd().suppress() text = file("para1.py").read() newtext = extraLineBreak.transformString(text) file("para2.py","w").write(newtext) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list