From cce4d67fc466b902a6b553c731d7be700b506dfd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Greg Ward <gward@python.net>
Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2002 21:04:21 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Fix SF bug #596434: tweak wordsep_re so "--foo-bar" now
 splits into /--foo-/bar/ rather than /--/foo-/bar/.  Needed for Optik and
 Docutils to handle Unix-style command-line options properly.

---
 Lib/textwrap.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Lib/textwrap.py b/Lib/textwrap.py
index fb8d3b841d4..8b3a26559a5 100644
--- a/Lib/textwrap.py
+++ b/Lib/textwrap.py
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ class TextWrapper:
     #   Hello/ /there/ /--/ /you/ /goof-/ball,/ /use/ /the/ /-b/ /option!
     # (after stripping out empty strings).
     wordsep_re = re.compile(r'(\s+|'                  # any whitespace
-                            r'\w{2,}-(?=\w{2,})|'     # hyphenated words
+                            r'-*\w{2,}-(?=\w{2,})|'   # hyphenated words
                             r'(?<=\w)-{2,}(?=\w))')   # em-dash
 
     # XXX will there be a locale-or-charset-aware version of