[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) https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/bc60c47169d1cb33f6fbe1ed64c09a536e82

[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

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[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, gregor

[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 whethe

[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 li

[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 dorman

[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