[issue43518] textwrap.shorten does not always respect word boundaries

[annesylvie]

Change by annesylvie :


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components: Library (Lib)
nosy: annesylvie
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: textwrap.shorten does not always respect word boundaries
type: behavior
versions: Python 3.8

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[issue43518] textwrap.shorten does not always respect word boundaries

[annesylvie]

New submission from annesylvie :

The `shorten` function from the `textwrap` module does not always break strings 
at the correct location.

`shorten("hello world!", width=7, placeholder="")`
 returns
`'hello'`
as expected, but
`shorten("hello world!!", width=7, placeholder="")`
returns
`'hello w'`
which is incorrect. The error seems to appear when two or more exclamation 
marks (in this specific example) are added.

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