Python Equivalent to Text::Autoformat

[BartlebyScrivener]

I'm new to both Perl & Python.

Is there a Python module or script somewhere comparable to the useful
Perl module - Text::Autoformat?

Thanks,

BS

[Paddy]

Google is your freind.
Try searching for:
python text wrapping

- Paddy.

[BartlebyScrivener]

>>try searching on text wrapping<<

I tried that before I posted. Text::Autoformat does a lot more than
textwrap.

"The fundamental task of the autoformat subroutine is to identify and
rearrange independent paragraphs in a text. Paragraphs typically
consist of a series of lines containing at least one non-whitespace
character, followed by one or more lines containing only optional
whitespace. This is a more liberal definition than many other
formatters use: most require an empty line to terminate a paragraph.
Paragraphs may also be denoted by bulleting, numbering, or quoting . .
.."

Once a paragraph has been isolated, autoformat fills and re-wraps its
lines according to the margins that are specified in its argument list.
These are placed after the text to be formatted, in a hash reference:"

It's also sensitive to comment characters in code and so on.

But I'll keep looking. Thank you.

bs

[Dan Sommers]

On 4 Dec 2005 05:58:08 -0800,
"BartlebyScrivener" <rp*******@gmail.com> wrote:

try searching on text wrapping<<

I tried that before I posted. Text::Autoformat does a lot more than
textwrap.

"The fundamental task of the autoformat subroutine is to identify and
rearrange independent paragraphs in a text. Paragraphs typically
consist of a series of lines containing at least one non-whitespace
character, followed by one or more lines containing only optional
whitespace. This is a more liberal definition than many other
formatters use: most require an empty line to terminate a paragraph.
Paragraphs may also be denoted by bulleting, numbering, or quoting . .
."

Try the formatter module:

http://www.python.org/doc/current/li...formatter.html

Regards,
Dan

--
Dan Sommers
<http://www.tombstonezero.net/dan/>

[Peter Hansen]

BartlebyScrivener wrote:

try searching on text wrapping<<

I tried that before I posted. Text::Autoformat does a lot more than
textwrap.

Sounds like you are describing something known by various names, often
including some part of "structured text". Try googling for that
instead: http://www.google.com/search?q=python+structured+text

-Peter

[BartlebyScrivener]

Formatter and docutils both look promising.

Thanks for providing the terminology to search on.

-rpd