So I just reformatted a bunch of code to incorporate textwrap.wrap, only to discover all of my \n are gone. Here's an example.
from textwrap import wrap
def wrapAndPrint (msg, width=25):
""" wrap msg to width, then print """
message = wrap(msg, width)
for line in message:
print line
msg = ("Ok, this is a test. Let's write to a \nnewline\nand then "
"continue on with this message")
If I print msg, I get the following
>>> print msg
Ok, this is a test. Let's write to a
newline
and then continue on with this message
>>>
However, if i send it to be wrapped it looks like this:
>>> wrapAndPrint(msg)
Ok, this is a test. Let's
write to a newline and
then continue on with
this message
>>>
I thought it might have something to do with printing strings from a list, so I tried calling specific indices, so I tried making my for loop look more like this:
x = 0
for line in message:
print line[x]
x += 1
But that didn't make any bit of difference. So, what am I missing here, or doing wrong? I really need my newlines, and I also really need my text to be wrapped.
By default, the wrap() function replaces whitespace characters (including newline) with a single space. You can turn this off by passing the keyword argument replace_whitespace=False.
http://docs.python.org/library/textwrap.html#textwrap.TextWrapper.replace_whitespace