# http://code.activestate.com/recipes/577946-word-wrap-for-proportional-fonts/ # MIT license import re def word_wrap(text, width, extent_func): ''' Word wrap function / algorithm for wrapping text using proportional (versus fixed-width) fonts. `text`: a string of text to wrap `width`: the width in pixels to wrap to `extent_func`: a function that returns a (w, h) tuple given any string, to specify the size (text extent) of the string when rendered. the algorithm only uses the width. Returns a list of strings, one for each line after wrapping. ''' lines = [] pattern = re.compile(r'(\s+)') lookup = dict((c, extent_func(c)[0]) for c in set(text)) for line in text.splitlines(): tokens = pattern.split(line) tokens.append('') widths = [sum(lookup[c] for c in token) for token in tokens] start, total = 0, 0 for index in xrange(0, len(tokens), 2): if total + widths[index] > width: end = index + 2 if index == start else index lines.append(''.join(tokens[start:end])) start, total = end, 0 if end == index + 2: continue total += widths[index] + widths[index + 1] if start < len(tokens): lines.append(''.join(tokens[start:])) lines = [line.strip() for line in lines] return lines or [''] if __name__ == '__main__': text = ( 'Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do ' 'eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua.\n\n' 'Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris ' 'nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat.\n\n' 'Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse ' 'cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur.\n\n' 'Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui ' 'officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.' ) # dummy extent function behaves like a fixed-width font def extent_func(text): return (1, 0) # wrap to 80 columns lines = word_wrap(text, 80, extent_func) for line in lines: print line