Issue 1859: Doc that textwrap does not break on \n (pending possible behavior patch...

diff --git a/Doc/library/textwrap.rst b/Doc/library/textwrap.rst
index f8817013b5faee340d682feae70fc1b065d0c4fe..860f81f9369c91904276c9623c7088a8265d7a1d 100644 (file)
--- a/Doc/library/textwrap.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/textwrap.rst
@@ -121,6 +121,13 @@ indentation from strings that have unwanted whitespace to the left of the text.
          each tab character will be replaced by a single space, which is *not*
          the same as tab expansion.
 
+      .. note::
+
+         If :attr:`replace_whitespace` is false, newlines may appear in the
+         middle of a line and cause strange output. For this reason, text should
+         be split into paragraphs (using :meth:`str.splitlines` or similar)
+         which are wrapped separately.
+
 
    .. attribute:: drop_whitespace