[issue13720] argparse print_help() fails if COLUMNS is set to a low value

[Zbyszek Szmek]

New submission from Zbyszek Szmek <zbyszek at in.waw.pl>:

% cat test_argparse_narrow.py
import argparse
argparse.ArgumentParser().print_help()

% COLUMNS=15 ./python test_argparse_narrow.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "test_argparse_narrow.py", line 2, in <module>
    argparse.ArgumentParser().print_help()
  File "/home/zbyszek/python/cpython/Lib/argparse.py", line 2347, in print_help
    self._print_message(self.format_help(), file)
  File "/home/zbyszek/python/cpython/Lib/argparse.py", line 2321, in format_help
    return formatter.format_help()
  File "/home/zbyszek/python/cpython/Lib/argparse.py", line 276, in format_help
    help = self._root_section.format_help()
  File "/home/zbyszek/python/cpython/Lib/argparse.py", line 206, in format_help
    func(*args)
  File "/home/zbyszek/python/cpython/Lib/argparse.py", line 206, in format_help
    func(*args)
  File "/home/zbyszek/python/cpython/Lib/argparse.py", line 514, in _format_action
    help_lines = self._split_lines(help_text, help_width)
  File "/home/zbyszek/python/cpython/Lib/argparse.py", line 615, in _split_lines
    return _textwrap.wrap(text, width)
  File "/home/zbyszek/python/cpython/Lib/textwrap.py", line 316, in wrap
    return w.wrap(text)
  File "/home/zbyszek/python/cpython/Lib/textwrap.py", line 291, in wrap
    return self._wrap_chunks(chunks)
  File "/home/zbyszek/python/cpython/Lib/textwrap.py", line 220, in _wrap_chunks
    raise ValueError("invalid width %r (must be > 0)" % self.width)
ValueError: invalid width -1 (must be > 0)

argparse should not fail if the user resizes the window to something very thin...

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components: Library (Lib)
files: test_argparse_narrow.py
messages: 150733
nosy: zbysz
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: argparse print_help() fails if COLUMNS is set to a low value
versions: Python 3.3
Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file24154/test_argparse_narrow.py

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