textlib: Routines for working with text

Routines for working with text

Functions

escapeAnsi(line)	Escape ansi codes
firstSentence(txt)	Returns the first sentence from txt
fuzzymatch(pattern, strings)	Find possible matches to pattern in strings.
getIndentation(code)	get the number of spaces used to indent code
joinPreservingIndentation(fragments)	Like join, but preserving indentation
linesStrip(lines)	Remove empty lines from the top and bottom
linesStripBottom(lines[, maxlines])	Strip empty lines from the end of the list
linesStripTop(lines)	Remove empty lines from the top
ljust(s, width[, fillchar])	Like str.ljust, but ensures that the output is always the given width
makeReplacer(conditions)	Create a function to replace many subtrings at once
matchIndentation(code, modelcode)	Indent code matching modelcode
quoteIfNeeded(s[, quote, defaultquote])	Add quotation marks around s if needed
reindent(text, prefix)	Reindent a given text.
splitInChunks(s, maxlen)	Split s into strings of max.
stripLines(text[, which, splitregex])	Strip leading and trailing empty lines
unicodeFraction(numerator, denominator[, ...])