On Jul 15, 1:14 pm, seldan24 <selda...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Jul 15, 12:47 pm, Michiel Overtoom <mot...@xs4all.nl> wrote: > > > > > seldan24 wrote: > > > what can I use as the equivalent for the Unix 'fold' command? > > > def fold(s,len): > > while s: > > print s[:len] > > s=s[len:] > > > s="A very long string indeed. Really that long? Indeed." > > fold(s,10) > > > Output: > > > A very lon > > g string i > > ndeed. Rea > > lly that l > > ong? Indee > > d. > > > Greetings, > > > -- > > "The ability of the OSS process to collect and harness > > the collective IQ of thousands of individuals across > > the Internet is simply amazing." - Vinod > > Valloppillilhttp://www.catb.org/~esr/halloween/halloween4.html > > Wow, I feel like a dork. I should have done more research prior to > posting. Anyway, thanks for the advice. The trouble with Python is > that things make 'too much' sense. Loving this language.
You might also find the textwrap module useful: http://docs.python.org/library/textwrap.html -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list