Tweak wordsep_re again: this time to recognize an em-dash with

gward · gward · commit e3bd104aa7d0 · 2002-08-22T21:28:00.000Z
any non-whitespace characters adjacent, not just \w.
diff --git a/Lib/textwrap.py b/Lib/textwrap.py
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ class TextWrapper:
     # (after stripping out empty strings).
     wordsep_re = re.compile(r'(\s+|'                  # any whitespace
                             r'-*\w{2,}-(?=\w{2,})|'   # hyphenated words
-                            r'(?<=\w)-{2,}(?=\w))')   # em-dash
+                            r'(?<=\S)-{2,}(?=\S))')   # em-dash
 
     # XXX will there be a locale-or-charset-aware version of
     # string.lowercase in 2.3?
