Python textwrap Library - How to Preserve Line Breaks?

Question

When using Python's textwrap library, how can I turn this: ``` short line, long line xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ``` into this: ``` short line, long line xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ``` I tried: ``` w = textwrap.TextWrapper(width=90,break_long_words=False) body = '
'.join(w.wrap(body)) ``` But I get: ``` short line, long line xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ``` (spacing not exact in my examples)

Accepted Answer

try

```
w = textwrap.TextWrapper(width=90,break_long_words=False,replace_whitespace=False)
```

that seemed to fix the problem for me

I worked that out from what I read here (I've never used textwrap before)

Python textwrap Library - How to Preserve Line Breaks?

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