Function wrap

Lib/textwrap.py:373–384

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 white

(text, width=70, **kwargs)

# -- Convenience interface ---------------------------------------------

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

def fill(text, width=70, **kwargs):
    """Fill a single paragraph of text, returning a new string.