Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> added the comment: I'd actually suggest that as the default behaviour (and is a good argument in favour of a dedicated function in textwrap - both suggested alternatives will blithely add whitespace to otherwise empty lines).
To handle the empty line requires either switching to an re.sub() based solution or adding a conditional expression: '\n'.join(((4 * ' ') + x if x else x) for x in s.splitlines()) I should probably also explicitly address the "why not textwrap.fill()?" alternative: because fill() does a lot more than simple indenting. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue13857> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com