[reportlab-users] RE: paragraph out of table

[Henning von Bargen]

> From: wang bin <wangbin1979 at gmail.com>
> Subject: [reportlab-users] paragraph out of table
> To: reportlab-users at reportlab.com
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> hi everyone, I am a newbie learning to use reportlab to generate pdf.
> I gat a problem when a paragraph is too long for a table cell, it just
> went out of the table, I want to know if there is some attribute or
> parameter can control the wrap of the line ?
> 

I'm quite sure that what you mean is "when a string is too long..."
and not "when a paragraph is too long...".

You should use Paragraphs (the class!) inside table cells.
Then line-wrapping will work out of the box.

See also the test code inside platypes/tables.py

HTH
Henning