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## The `textwrap` module

The **`textwrap` module** in Python is an in-built module. This module provides functions for wrapping, filling, and formatting plain text. For example, we can adjust the line breaks in an input paragraph using the `textwrap` module.


## The `dedent` method

The **`dedent` method** removes any common leading whitespace from each line of the provided text. In the input, lines containing only whitespace are disregarded. These are normalized to a single newline character in the output.

```
textwrap.dedent(text)
```
## Parameter
**`text`**: This is the text to be dedented.


## Code

import textwrap


txt = '''
       
'''

print("dedent of string containing only whitespace is %s" % (textwrap.dedent(txt).encode("unicode_escape"), ))

txt = '''

hello educative!! 
        '''
print(textwrap.dedent(txt).encode("unicode_escape"))

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## Code explanation

- Line 1: The `textwrap` module is imported.
- Lines 4–14: The `dedent()` method is invoked with different outputs. The output of the method is escaped so that the newline character inserted is printed.

What is textwrap.dedent() in Python?

Removes common leading whitespace from each line of text, normalizing whitespace-only lines.

What is textwrap.dedent() in Python?

The textwrap module

The dedent method

Parameter

Code

Code explanation

The `textwrap` module

The `dedent` method