[New-bugs-announce] [issue35612] Text wrap over text containing tab character

[Devika Sondhi]

New submission from Devika Sondhi <devikas at iiitd.ac.in>:

textwrap.wrap does not seem to preserve tab character ('\t') in the text if it is not separated from other characters by a space.
Example:
>>> textwrap.wrap("Here is\tone line of text that is going to be wrapped after 20 columns.",20)                                                           
['Here is one line of', 'text that is going', 'to be wrapped after', '20 columns.']
The tab is missing from the above output.
However, for text with \t separated by space, the behavior is as expected (shown below).
>>> textwrap.wrap("Here is \t one line of text that is going to be wrapped after 20 columns.",20)                                                         
['Here is          one', 'line of text that is', 'going to be wrapped', 'after 20 columns.']

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components: Tests
messages: 332712
nosy: Devika Sondhi
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Text wrap over text containing tab character
versions: Python 3.7

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