Other consequences of textwrap.wrap() changes in 3.15

Bug report

Bug description:

It seems like the change in #139902 had other effects than what the PR intended. If those changes are intentional, it would be good if they were documented. And if they were not intentional, then this seem like a bug. This change has since been backported (#139902, #139903), though I don't believe those backports have been released.

Given the following code:

import textwrap
textwrap.wrap(' ABCDEFG', width=1)

In 3.14.0, this returns [' ', 'A', 'B', 'C', 'D', 'E', 'F', 'G']
In 3.15.0a1, this returns ['A', 'B', 'C', 'D', 'E', 'F', 'G']

Since the PR only mentions trailing whitespace, it appears this change was unintended.

The documentation reads as follows.

drop_whitespace
(default: True) If true, whitespace at the beginning and ending of every line (after wrapping but before indenting) is dropped. Whitespace at the beginning of the paragraph, however, is not dropped if non-whitespace follows it. If whitespace being dropped takes up an entire line, the whole line is dropped.

I am not sure how to interpret this. This line would seem to indicate the space should be preserved.

Whitespace at the beginning of the paragraph, however, is not dropped if non-whitespace follows it.

CPython versions tested on:

3.15

Operating systems tested on:

Linux

Linked PRs

• gh-140639

Commencez par exécuter l’exemple textwrap.wrap(' ABCDEFG', width=1) sur les versions de Python signalées et lisez le comportement documenté de drop_whitespace. Comparez les conséquences de l’issue #139902 avec celles du PR associé #140639 ; le travail est terminé lorsqu’il est établi si le changement de comportement concernant l’espace initial est intentionnel et qu’il est corrigé ou documenté en conséquence.