textwrap.wrap infinite loop

[jpetrone]

BPO	726446
Nosy	@rhettinger

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title = 'textwrap.wrap infinite loop'
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[jpetrone]

textwrap.wrap appears to go into an infinite loop
when called with a width <= 0. I don't know what the
correct
behavior here should be, but I'm guessing this isn't it.

Maybe it should be throwing an exception?

[rhettinger]

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Greg, do you have time for this one?

[gward]

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OK, that's pretty easy to check. Test added in rev 1.20 of
Lib/test/test_textwrap.py, fix in rev 1.25 of Lib/textwrap.py .