[New-bugs-announce] [issue21827] textwrap.dedent() fails when largest common whitespace is a substring of smallest leading whitespace

[Robert Li]

New submission from Robert Li:

Failing test case: "  \tboo\n \tghost"

expected:          " \tboo\n\tghost"
returns:           "  \tboo\n \tghost"

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components: Library (Lib)
messages: 221277
nosy: pitrou, r.david.murray, robertjli, yjchen
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: textwrap.dedent() fails when largest common whitespace is a substring of smallest leading whitespace
type: behavior
versions: Python 3.5

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