I'm using textwrap to wrap text that contains URLs that contain hyphens.  When it wraps these URLs after a hyphen, it breaks the URL.  I wish there was a way to prevent it from doing so.

FWIW, one workaround is to "monkey patch" the module:

  textwrap.TextWrapper.wordsep_re = re.compile(r'(\s+|(?<=[\w\!\"\'\&\.\,\?])-{2,}(?=\w))')

Another workaround is to "hide" the hyphens during wrapping and then restore them.
  
  def myfill(text, width=70, **kwargs):
     althyphen = chr(127)
     text = text.replace('-', althyphen)
     result = wrap(text, width, **kwargs)
     return result.replace(althyphen, '-')

That being said, I'm +1 on adding a keyword argument treating hyphens as non-breaking.

> That being said, I'm +1 on adding a keyword argument treating hyphens
> as non-breaking

It's now in Python 2.6: http://bugs.python.org/issue2659

This issue should probably be closed.

"Duplicate" of issue2659