From: Greg Ward <gward@python.net>
Date: Thu, 8 May 2003 02:02:50 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Minor clarification of dedent().
X-Git-Tag: v2.3c1~807
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=2557100b9ef3b75d05fd85534b4d75792fd68ab3;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git

Minor clarification of dedent().
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diff --git a/Lib/textwrap.py b/Lib/textwrap.py
index ec0e7cbe0160..754b037323ea 100644
--- a/Lib/textwrap.py
+++ b/Lib/textwrap.py
@@ -334,16 +334,16 @@ def dedent(text):
     lines = text.expandtabs().split('\n')
     margin = None
     for line in lines:
-        content = len(line.lstrip())
+        content = line.lstrip()
         if not content:
             continue
-        indent = len(line) - content
+        indent = len(line) - len(content)
         if margin is None:
             margin = indent
         else:
             margin = min(margin, indent)
 
-    if margin is not None:
+    if margin is not None and margin > 0:
         for i in range(len(lines)):
             lines[i] = lines[i][margin:]