RE: feature request #1055954: respect newlines in description

"Laurent Laporte" <[email protected]> Wed, 9 Mar 2005 19:15:52 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.python.optik.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]]De la part de Andrea
> 'fwyzard' Bocci
> Envoy=E9 : mercredi 9 mars 2005 19:02
> =C0 : Laurent Laporte
> Cc : [email protected]
> Objet : Re: [optik] feature request #1055954: respect newlines in
> description
>
>
> Laurent Laporte wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > ...
> >
> > Notice: The same problem (of newlines non-interpretation) occurs with
> > options' help messages -- see help's parameter of the method
add_option().
> > It also uses texwrap() function...
>
> I could be usefull then to modify (or inherit from) textwrap to that
newlines could be treated indipendently of other
> whitespaces (much lke tabs can be).
>
> .Andrea.


unfortunately, you can't simply redefine whitespace character by inheriti=
ng
from TextWrapper class. You must change the whitespace_trans's class memb=
er.
This change may impact other modules.

------- Laurent.



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