From 61ff85e609485c7d9d250c23d30a6ef9bd978576 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu>
Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2010 20:28:34 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Issue 1859: Document that textwrap does not break on \n
 Merged from 86717

---
 Doc/library/textwrap.rst | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Doc/library/textwrap.rst b/Doc/library/textwrap.rst
index bfc63fb4c22..8fbfe9c1c10 100644
--- a/Doc/library/textwrap.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/textwrap.rst
@@ -125,6 +125,13 @@ indentation from strings that have unwanted whitespace to the left of the text.
          each tab character will be replaced by a single space, which is *not*
          the same as tab expansion.
 
+      .. note::
+
+         If :attr:`replace_whitespace` is false, newlines may appear in the
+         middle of a line and cause strange output. For this reason, text should
+         be split into paragraphs (using :meth:`str.splitlines` or similar)
+         which are wrapped separately.
+
 
    .. attribute:: drop_whitespace