[issue18585] Add a text truncation function
Vajrasky Kok
report at bugs.python.org
Wed Jul 31 08:11:41 CEST 2013
Vajrasky Kok added the comment:
Monsieur Pitrou, thanks for the explanation. Actually, IMHO I prefer, 'hello (...)' should be the minimum words we can use not '(...)' because '(...)' does not make any sense. But, anyway, it's your call. :)
Anyway, using your summarize2.patch:
>>> textwrap.summarize('hello world!', width=6)
'(...)'
>>> textwrap.summarize('hello world!', width=5)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
File "/home/ethan/Documents/code/python/cpython/Lib/textwrap.py", line 378, in summarize
return w.summarize(text, placeholder=placeholder)
File "/home/ethan/Documents/code/python/cpython/Lib/textwrap.py", line 314, in summarize
raise ValueError("placeholder too large for max width")
ValueError: placeholder too large for max width
Why? '(...)' is 5 characters only. I checked the patch and found out that the placeholder is ' (...)' (with space) and you compare the width with the placeholder.
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