Re: Line-wrapping in tables

On 08/04/2014 16:59, Steve Hill wrote:
> On 08/04/14 10:07, Robin Becker wrote:
>
>> there is some support in recent reportlab for arbitrary splitting.
>> Looking at the code it seems this is presently only happening if the
>> style has splitLongWords set. Have you tried that?
>
> Ah ha, thanks.  It looks like Reportlab 3.0 does more or less what I need.
>
> Unfortunately, Reportlab 3.0 bumps the minimum Python version up to 2.7,
> and I'm stuck with Python 2.6.6 for now (which is the latest packaged
> for Scientific Linux).  Hacking __init__.py to reduce the minimum
> version back to 2.6 seems to work though, but what is likely to break if
> I run a hacked Reportlab 3.0 against Python 2.6.6?
>
Steve,

you can use the py27 branch; I'm fairly sure that also has the splitLongWords 
style stuff.
-- 
Robin Becker