Stop words being broken over 2 lines on command line

I am working on a project that randomly selects sentences of less than 280 characters, and then prints them to the command line using a 'typewriter effect'.I am using a raspberry pi and a 7inch touchscreen monitor.

Thanks to help on this forum and other places I have it working. I had issues with words being split over two lines but commenters here have helped me. However, I am still having one issue, when I use

    str2 = textwrap.fill(newTok, 20)

and then use str2 with this

 words = str2 # 
    for char in words:
        sleep(0.1)
        sys.stdout.write(char)
        sys.stdout.flush()

The string is been spaced out over 4 lines and takes up full lines.

so instead of

This is 
being split 
over four
different lines

It is giving

This is 
        being split
                    over four 
                              different lines.

Any suggestions would be great.

It seems like you want to wrap your strings, just not in the middle of words.

You can use the textwrap module. This will make sure your lines are under a certain amount of characters.

import textwrap

str1 = "My long strings need to get wrapped at words, not randomly between characters"
str2 = textwrap.fill(str1, 20)

So now if you print(str2)

My long strings need
to get wrapped at
words, not randomly
between characters

Since you seem confused how you line break in general, this is what happens when you print(repr(str2))

'My long strings need\nto get wrapped at\nwords, not randomly\nbetween characters'

The lines break at \n

To adjust for the new problem that has been edited in, where lines breaks do not return to the left margin, you need to add a carriage return - \r

So str2 = str2.replace('\n', \r\n')