[New-bugs-announce] [issue13107] Text width in optparse.py can become negative
Adam Byrtek
report at bugs.python.org
Wed Oct 5 13:08:23 CEST 2011
New submission from Adam Byrtek <adambyrtek at gmail.com>:
Code snippet from optparse.py:
344 self.help_position = min(max_len + 2, self.max_help_position)
345 self.help_width = self.width - self.help_position
Where self.width is initialized with the COLUMNS environment variable. On narrow terminals it can happen that self.help_position < self.width, leading to an exception in textwrap.py:
raise ValueError("invalid width %r (must be > 0)" % self.width)
ValueError: invalid width -15 (must be > 0)
A reasonable workaround would be to trim part of the help text instead of causing an exception.
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components: Library (Lib)
messages: 144947
nosy: adambyrtek
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Text width in optparse.py can become negative
type: behavior
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