Chris Jerdonek added the comment: > That's because wrap() suppresses extra whitespace by default.
But the documentation for drop_whitespace clearly states that, after wrapping, "leading whitespace in the first line is always preserved, though." > Once extra whitespace is suppressed, you are left with an empty text, meaning > an empty list of lines. That's perfectly logical. I wouldn't say that it is "perfectly" logical. String methods that drop characters from the beginning or end of a string return an empty string for empty text. >>> " ".strip() '' > Furthermore, by "fixing" this, you may break existing software. Issue 1859 is an arguably larger change that will also break existing software, and that issue has been kept open. One scenario to consider: if we agree to fix issue 1859 in some versions, might that change whether we should address this issue in those versions as well? ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue15510> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
