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textwrap

module

Wrap and fill paragraphs to a width, shorten long lines, remove and add indentation.

Syntax

import textwrap

textwrap lays plain text out to a width: wrap returns a list of lines, fill returns one string with newlines, shorten truncates at a word boundary with a placeholder. dedent strips the common indent from a triple-quoted string, indent adds a prefix. Width is counted in characters, so emoji and CJK characters that take two terminal cells break the alignment.

Examples

import textwrap
s = 'The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog'
print(textwrap.wrap(s, width=15))  # → ['The quick brown', 'fox jumps over', 'the lazy dog']
print(textwrap.shorten(s, width=20))  # → The quick [...]
print(textwrap.dedent('    a\n    b'))  # → a / b

See also

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