Initial revision. Currently biased towards English in a fixed-width font,

according to the conventions that I (and Tim Peters) learned in school.

Lib/textwrap.py

+"""
+Utilities for wrapping text strings and filling text paragraphs.
+"""
+
+__revision__ = "$Id$"
+
+import string, re
+
+
+# XXX is this going to be implemented properly somewhere in 2.3?
+def islower (c):
+    return c in string.lowercase
+
+
+class TextWrapper:
+    """
+    Object for wrapping/filling text.  The public interface consists of
+    the wrap() and fill() methods; the other methods are just there for
+    subclasses to override in order to tweak the default behaviour.
+    If you want to completely replace the main wrapping algorithm,
+    you'll probably have to override _wrap_chunks().
+
+    Several instance attributes control various aspects of
+    wrapping:
+      expand_tabs
+        if true (default), tabs in input text will be expanded
+        to spaces before further processing.  Each tab will
+        become 1 .. 8 spaces, depending on its position in its line.
+        If false, each tab is treated as a single character.
+      replace_whitespace
+        if true (default), all whitespace characters in the input
+        text are replaced by spaces after tab expansion.  Note
+        that expand_tabs is false and replace_whitespace is true,
+        every tab will be converted to a single space!
+      break_long_words
+        if true (default), words longer than the line width constraint
+        will be broken.  If false, those words will not be broken,
+        and some lines might be longer than the width constraint.
+    """
+
+    whitespace_trans = string.maketrans(string.whitespace,
+                                        ' ' * len(string.whitespace))
+
+    # This funky little regex is just the trick for splitting 
+    # text up into word-wrappable chunks.  E.g.
+    #   "Hello there -- you goof-ball, use the -b option!"
+    # splits into
+    #   Hello/ /there/ /--/ /you/ /goof-/ball,/ /use/ /the/ /-b/ /option!
+    # (after stripping out empty strings).
+    wordsep_re = re.compile(r'(\s+|'                  # any whitespace
+                            r'\w{2,}-(?=\w{2,})|'     # hyphenated words
+                            r'(?<=\w)-{2,}(?=\w))')   # em-dash
+
+
+    def __init__ (self):
+        self.expand_tabs = 1
+        self.replace_whitespace = 1
+        self.break_long_words = 1
+        
+
+    # -- Private methods -----------------------------------------------
+    # (possibly useful for subclasses to override)
+
+    def _munge_whitespace (self, text):
+        """_munge_whitespace(text : string) -> string
+
+        Munge whitespace in text: expand tabs and convert all other
+        whitespace characters to spaces.  Eg. " foo\tbar\n\nbaz"
+        becomes " foo    bar  baz".
+        """
+        if self.expand_tabs:
+            text = text.expandtabs()
+        if self.replace_whitespace:
+            text = text.translate(self.whitespace_trans)
+        return text
+
+
+    def _split (self, text):
+        """_split(text : string) -> [string]
+
+        Split the text to wrap into indivisible chunks.  Chunks are
+        not quite the same as words; see wrap_chunks() for full
+        details.  As an example, the text
+          Look, goof-ball -- use the -b option!
+        breaks into the following chunks:
+          'Look,', ' ', 'goof-', 'ball', ' ', '--', ' ',
+          'use', ' ', 'the', ' ', '-b', ' ', 'option!'
+        """
+        chunks = self.wordsep_re.split(text)
+        chunks = filter(None, chunks)
+        return chunks
+
+    def _fix_sentence_endings (self, chunks):
+        """_fix_sentence_endings(chunks : [string])
+
+        Correct for sentence endings buried in 'chunks'.  Eg. when the
+        original text contains "... foo.\nBar ...", munge_whitespace()
+        and split() will convert that to [..., "foo.", " ", "Bar", ...]
+        which has one too few spaces; this method simply changes the one
+        space to two.
+        """
+        i = 0
+        while i < len(chunks)-1:
+            # chunks[i] looks like the last word of a sentence,
+            # and it's followed by a single space.
+            if (chunks[i][-1] == "." and
+                  chunks[i+1] == " " and
+                  islower(chunks[i][-2])):
+                chunks[i+1] = "  "
+                i += 2
+            else:
+                i += 1
+
+    def _handle_long_word (self, chunks, cur_line, cur_len, width):
+        """_handle_long_word(chunks : [string],
+                             cur_line : [string],
+                             cur_len : int, width : int)
+
+        Handle a chunk of text (most likely a word, not whitespace) that
+        is too long to fit in any line.
+        """
+        space_left = width - cur_len
+
+        # If we're allowed to break long words, then do so: put as much
+        # of the next chunk onto the current line as will fit.
+        if self.break_long_words:
+            cur_line.append(chunks[0][0:space_left])
+            chunks[0] = chunks[0][space_left:]
+
+        # Otherwise, we have to preserve the long word intact.  Only add
+        # it to the current line if there's nothing already there --
+        # that minimizes how much we violate the width constraint.
+        elif not cur_line:
+            cur_line.append(chunks.pop(0))
+
+        # If we're not allowed to break long words, and there's already
+        # text on the current line, do nothing.  Next time through the
+        # main loop of _wrap_chunks(), we'll wind up here again, but
+        # cur_len will be zero, so the next line will be entirely
+        # devoted to the long word that we can't handle right now.
+
+    def _wrap_chunks (self, chunks, width):
+        """_wrap_chunks(chunks : [string], width : int) -> [string]
+
+        Wrap a sequence of text chunks and return a list of lines of
+        length 'width' or less.  (If 'break_long_words' is false, some
+        lines may be longer than 'width'.)  Chunks correspond roughly to
+        words and the whitespace between them: each chunk is indivisible
+        (modulo 'break_long_words'), but a line break can come between
+        any two chunks.  Chunks should not have internal whitespace;
+        ie. a chunk is either all whitespace or a "word".  Whitespace
+        chunks will be removed from the beginning and end of lines, but
+        apart from that whitespace is preserved.
+        """
+        lines = []
+
+        while chunks:
+
+            cur_line = []                   # list of chunks (to-be-joined)
+            cur_len = 0                     # length of current line
+
+            # First chunk on line is whitespace -- drop it.
+            if chunks[0].strip() == '':
+                del chunks[0]
+
+            while chunks:
+                l = len(chunks[0])
+
+                # Can at least squeeze this chunk onto the current line.
+                if cur_len + l <= width:
+                    cur_line.append(chunks.pop(0))
+                    cur_len += l
+
+                # Nope, this line is full.
+                else:
+                    break
+
+            # The current line is full, and the next chunk is too big to
+            # fit on *any* line (not just this one).  
+            if chunks and len(chunks[0]) > width:
+                self._handle_long_word(chunks, cur_line, cur_len, width)
+
+            # If the last chunk on this line is all whitespace, drop it.
+            if cur_line and cur_line[-1].strip() == '':
+                del cur_line[-1]
+
+            # Convert current line back to a string and store it in list
+            # of all lines (return value).
+            if cur_line:
+                lines.append(''.join(cur_line))
+
+        return lines
+
+
+    # -- Public interface ----------------------------------------------
+
+    def wrap (self, text, width):
+        """wrap(text : string, width : int) -> [string]
+
+        Split 'text' into multiple lines of no more than 'width'
+        characters each, and return the list of strings that results.
+        Tabs in 'text' are expanded with string.expandtabs(), and all
+        other whitespace characters (including newline) are converted to
+        space.
+        """
+        text = self._munge_whitespace(text)
+        if len(text) <= width:
+            return [text]
+        chunks = self._split(text)
+        self._fix_sentence_endings(chunks)
+        return self._wrap_chunks(chunks, width)
+
+    def fill (self, text, width, initial_tab="", subsequent_tab=""):
+        """fill(text : string,
+                width : int,
+                initial_tab : string = "",
+                subsequent_tab : string = "")
+           -> string
+
+        Reformat the paragraph in 'text' to fit in lines of no more than
+        'width' columns.  The first line is prefixed with 'initial_tab',
+        and subsequent lines are prefixed with 'subsequent_tab'; the
+        lengths of the tab strings are accounted for when wrapping lines
+        to fit in 'width' columns.
+        """
+        lines = self.wrap(text, width)
+        sep = "\n" + subsequent_tab
+        return initial_tab + sep.join(lines)
+
+
+# Convenience interface
+
+_wrapper = TextWrapper()
+
+def wrap (text, width):
+    return _wrapper.wrap(text, width)
+
+def fill (text, width, initial_tab="", subsequent_tab=""):
+    return _wrapper.fill(text, width, initial_tab, subsequent_tab)