def visit_literal(self, node):
        # copypasta'd from the base class to force use of 'code' instead of
        # 'tt' elements for literals
        # special case: "code" role
        classes = node.get('classes', [])
        if 'code' in classes:
            # filter 'code' from class arguments
            node['classes'] = [cls for cls in classes if cls != 'code']
            self.body.append(self.starttag(node, 'code', ''))
            return
        self.body.append(
            self.starttag(node, 'code', '', CLASS='docutils literal'))
        text = node.astext()
        for token in self.words_and_spaces.findall(text):
            if token.strip():
                # Protect text like "--an-option" and the regular expression
                # ``[+]?(\d+(\.\d*)?|\.\d+)`` from bad line wrapping
                if self.sollbruchstelle.search(token):
                    self.body.append('<span class="pre">%s</span>'
                                     % self.encode(token))
                else:
                    self.body.append(self.encode(token))
            elif token in ('\n', ' '):
                # Allow breaks at whitespace:
                self.body.append(token)
            else:
                # Protect runs of multiple spaces; the last space can wrap:
                self.body.append('&nbsp;' * (len(token) - 1) + ' ')
        self.body.append('</code>')
        # Content already processed:
        raise nodes.SkipNode
dataset/ETHPy150Open spacetelescope/PyFITS/pyfits/_release.py/_ReleaseNotesTranslator.visit_literal/original