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. ---------- title: shorten function of textwrap module is susceptible to non-normalized whitespaces -> shorten function of textwrap module is susceptible to non-normalized whitespaces _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue18723> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com