[issue30754] textwrap.dedent mishandles empty lines

miss-islington added the comment: New changeset bc60c47169d1cb33f6fbe1ed64c09a536e82e1c3 by Miss Islington (bot) in branch '2.7': [2.7] bpo-30754: Document textwrap.dedent blank line behavior. (GH-14469) (GH-14475)

[issue30754] textwrap.dedent mishandles empty lines

miss-islington added the comment: New changeset 3e133c401a51f08404b68f11d921f0b406283741 by Miss Islington (bot) in branch '3.8': bpo-30754: Document textwrap.dedent blank line behavior. (GH-14469) https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/3e133c401a51f08404b68f11d921f0b406283741 --

[issue30754] textwrap.dedent mishandles empty lines

miss-islington added the comment: New changeset e2e41cd114ae761fbfee4e7c6539f5df5c8c7116 by Miss Islington (bot) in branch '3.7': bpo-30754: Document textwrap.dedent blank line behavior. (GH-14469) https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/e2e41cd114ae761fbfee4e7c6539f5df5c8c7116 --

[issue30754] textwrap.dedent mishandles empty lines

Change by Gregory P. Smith : -- resolution: -> fixed stage: patch review -> resolved status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker ___

[issue30754] textwrap.dedent mishandles empty lines

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[issue30754] textwrap.dedent mishandles empty lines

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[issue30754] textwrap.dedent mishandles empty lines

Gregory P. Smith added the comment: New changeset eb97b9211e7c99841d6cae8c63893b3525d5a401 by Gregory P. Smith (tmblweed) in branch 'master': bpo-30754: Document textwrap.dedent blank line behavior. (GH-14469) https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/eb97b9211e7c99841d6cae8c63893b3525d5a401

[issue30754] textwrap.dedent mishandles empty lines

Change by miss-islington : -- pull_requests: +14292 pull_request: https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/14475 ___ Python tracker ___

[issue30754] textwrap.dedent mishandles empty lines

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[issue30754] textwrap.dedent mishandles empty lines

Julian Berman added the comment: I still disagree :) but docs are better than nothing. On Wed, Jun 12, 2019, 18:05 Guido van Rossum wrote: > > Change by Guido van Rossum : > > > -- > nosy: +gvanrossum > > ___ > Python tracker >

[issue30754] textwrap.dedent mishandles empty lines

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[issue30754] textwrap.dedent mishandles empty lines

sushma added the comment: I'm going to try and contribute this documentation fix. -- nosy: +syadlapalli ___ Python tracker ___ ___

[issue30754] textwrap.dedent mishandles empty lines

Gregory P. Smith added the comment: The current behavior is desired. We just need to document it better in https://docs.python.org/3/library/textwrap.html#textwrap.dedent -- assignee: -> docs@python components: +Documentation -Library (Lib) keywords: +easy nosy: +docs@python,

[issue30754] textwrap.dedent mishandles empty lines

Julian Berman added the comment: @Terry IMHO it conflicts with the fundamental description of the function. > Remove any common leading whitespace from every line in text. If this behavior is intentional, textwrap.dedent does not do that, it does that, but also some other stuff. As for

[issue30754] textwrap.dedent mishandles empty lines

Serhiy Storchaka added the comment: I think the current behavior is useful, but undocumented. Otherwise a blank line starting with unmatched whitespaces (e.g. " foo\n\t\n bar") would block deindenting. This also matches the behavior of Python parser which ignores all whitespaces in blank

[issue30754] textwrap.dedent mishandles empty lines

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: This is related to #19479 at least in the sense of addressing the same module, and being about It has a patch, so it would be good to accept or reject. Martin, could you take a look? There is currently no expert listed for textwrap. Georg is current

[issue30754] textwrap.dedent mishandles empty lines

Emily Morehouse added the comment: I concur with Martin, whitespace is not expected to be preserved on whitespace-only lines nor even considered when finding common leading whitepace. To illustrate this, see the examples below: The following yields the same (expected) results: > python2

[issue30754] textwrap.dedent mishandles empty lines

Martin Panter added the comment: Some people like to avoid indented blank lines, treating them the same as trailing whitespace. I suspect this behaviour may be intentional. -- nosy: +martin.panter ___ Python tracker

[issue30754] textwrap.dedent mishandles empty lines

New submission from Julian Berman: ⊙ python2 -c 'from textwrap import dedent; print repr(dedent(" " * 2 + "\n" + " " * 4 + "\n"))' '\n\n' instead of the presumed '\n \n' The same appears to be the case for py3.6. (At first glance, this seems unrelated to http://bugs.python.org/issue19479