textwrap does not handle single quotes with hyphens properly

[gward]

BPO	965425

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[gward]

This problem was reported as an Optik bug (bpo-813077),
but it's really a problem in textwrap. (Darn, textwrap
is harder to tweak.) In a nutshell,
TextWrapper._split() splits this string wrong:
"the 'wibble-wobble' widget"
It should split into
['the', ' ', "'wibble-", "wobble'", ' ', 'widget']
but it actually splits into
['the', ' ', "'", 'wibble-', "wobble'", ' ', 'widget']

Looks like that damn regex needs a bit more tweaking.
SIgh.

[gward]

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Turns out the fix was fairly easy: there was already a
special case in wordsep_re so that Optik and Docutils could
wrap long options like "--foo-bar" correctly. Generalizing
that special case to any punctuation ([^\\s\\w]) fixes this bug.

Fixed on release23-maint branch:
Lib/textwrap.py rev 1.32.8.3
Lib/test/test_textwrap.py rev 1.22.8.3

Merged onto trunk:
Lib/textwrap.py rev 1.35
Lib/test/test_textwrap.py rev 1.26