From: Jonathan Eunice <jonathan.eunice@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2017 20:49:13 +0000 (-0400)
Subject: bpo-30591: Added test for textwrap backtracking. (#1988)
X-Git-Tag: v3.7.0a1~672
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=5edf827c8052958b9d293f75ce8d93b66c1d58da;p=python

bpo-30591: Added test for textwrap backtracking. (#1988)
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diff --git a/Lib/test/test_textwrap.py b/Lib/test/test_textwrap.py
index 5a33c15164..47d97bda86 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_textwrap.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_textwrap.py
@@ -559,6 +559,17 @@ class MaxLinesTestCase(BaseTestCase):
                         placeholder=' [truncated]...')
         self.check_wrap(self.text, 80, [self.text], placeholder='.' * 1000)
 
+    def test_placeholder_backtrack(self):
+        # Test special case when max_lines insufficient, but what
+        # would be last wrapped line so long the placeholder cannot
+        # be added there without violence. So, textwrap backtracks,
+        # adding placeholder to the penultimate line.
+        text = 'Good grief Python features are advancing quickly!'
+        self.check_wrap(text, 12,
+                        ['Good grief', 'Python*****'],
+                        max_lines=3,
+                        placeholder='*****')
+
 
 class LongWordTestCase (BaseTestCase):
     def setUp(self):