Python Text Wrapping

Text wrapping is necessary when text from a source is not formatted correctly for the available screen width. This can be achieved using the following package, which can be installed in our environment using the following command.

pip install parawrap

The following paragraph contains a continuous string of text. After applying the wrap function, we can see how the text is separated into multiple lines, separated by commas.

import parawrap

text = "In late summer 1945, guests are gathered for the wedding reception of Don Vito Corleone's daughter Connie (Talia Shire) and Carlo Rizzi (Gianni Russo). Vito (Marlon Brando), the head of the Corleone Mafia family, is known to friends and associates as Godfather. He and Tom Hagen (Robert Duvall), the Corleone family lawyer, are hearing requests for favors because, according to Italian tradition, no Sicilian can refuse a request on his daughter's wedding day. One of the men who asks the Don for a favor is Amerigo Bonasera, a successful mortician and acquaintance of the Don, whose daughter was brutally beaten by two young men because she refused their advances; the men received minimal punishment from the presiding judge. The Don is disappointed in Bonasera, who'd avoided most contact with the Don due to Corleone's nefarious business dealings. The Don's wife is godmother to Bonasera's shamed daughter, a relationship the Don uses to extract new loyalty from the undertaker. The Don agrees to have his men punish the young men responsible (in a non-lethal manner) in return for future service if necessary."

print parawrap.wrap(text)

When running the above program, we get the following output:

['In late summer 1945, guests are gathered for the wedding reception of', "Don Vito Corleone's daughter Connie (Talia Shire) and Carlo Rizzi", '(Gianni Russo). Vito (Marlon Brando), the head of the Corleone Mafia', 'family, is known to friends and associates as Godfather. He and Tom', 'Hagen (Robert) Duvall), the Corleone family lawyer, are hearing', 'requests for favors because, according to Italian tradition, no', "Sicilian can refuse a request on his daughter's wedding day. One of", 'the men who asks the Don for a favor is Amerigo Bonasera, a successful', 'mortician and acquaintance of the Don, whose daughter was brutally', 'beaten by two young men because she refused their advances; the men', 'received minimal punishment from the presiding judge. The Don is', "disappointed in Bonasera, who'd avoided most contact with the Don due", "to Corleone's nefarious business dealings. The Don's wife is godmother", "to Bonasera's shamed daughter, a relationship the Don uses to extract", 'new loyalty from the undertaker. The Don agrees to have his men punish', 'the young men responsible (in a non-lethal manner) in return for', 'future service if necessary.']

We can also apply the wrap function to input arguments of a specific width, which will truncate words if necessary to maintain the width required by the wrap function.

import parawrap

text = "In late summer 1945, guests are gathered for the wedding reception of Don Vito Corleone's daughter Connie (Talia Shire) and Carlo Rizzi (Gianni Russo). Vito (Marlon Brando), the head of the Corleone Mafia family, is known to friends and associates as Godfather. He and Tom Hagen (Robert Duvall), the Corleone family lawyer, are hearing requests for favors because, according to Italian tradition, no Sicilian can refuse a request on his daughter's wedding day. One of the men who asks the Don for a favor is Amerigo Bonasera, a successful mortician and acquaintance of the Don, whose daughter was brutally beaten by two young men because she refused their advances; the men received minimal punishment from the presiding judge. The Don is disappointed in Bonasera, who'd avoided most contact with the Don due to Corleone's nefarious business dealings. The Don's wife is godmother to Bonasera's shamed daughter, a relationship the Don uses to extract new loyalty from the undertaker. The Don agrees to have his men punish the young men responsible (in a non-lethal manner) in return for future service if necessary."

print parawrap.wrap(text,5)

When we run the above program, we get the following output:

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