Function fill

Lib/textwrap.py:386–396

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 conve

(text, width=70, **kwargs)

    return w.wrap(text)

def fill(text, width=70, **kwargs):
    """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.
    """
    w = TextWrapper(width=width, **kwargs)
    return w.fill(text)

def shorten(text, width, **kwargs):
    """Collapse and truncate the given text to fit in the given width.