[issue18723] shorten function of textwrap module is susceptible to non-normalized whitespaces
Antoine Pitrou
report at bugs.python.org
Tue Aug 13 17:34:16 CEST 2013
Antoine Pitrou added the comment:
> I missed this case:
>
> >>> from textwrap import shorten
> >>> shorten('hell', 4)
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
> File
> "/home/sky/Code/python/programming_language/cpython/Lib/textwrap.py",
> line 386, in shorten
> return w.shorten(text, placeholder=placeholder)
> File
> "/home/sky/Code/python/programming_language/cpython/Lib/textwrap.py",
> line 322, in shorten
> raise ValueError("placeholder too large for max width")
> ValueError: placeholder too large for max width
This is by design. Passing a placeholder larger than the width is a
programming error, regardless of whether the text is small enough.
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title: shorten function of textwrap module is susceptible to non-normalized whitespaces -> shorten function of textwrap module is susceptible to non-normalized whitespaces
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