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Author	annesylvie
Recipients	annesylvie
Date	2021-03-16.16:24:24
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Message-id	<1615911865.24.0.216349409983.issue43518@roundup.psfhosted.org>
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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.

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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Date	User	Action	Args
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