newline - 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)

Answer 1

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)