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gh-139246: zero-width word paste can be wrong in default repl #139254

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fix: zero-width word paste can be wrong in default repl
yihong0618 Sep 23, 2025
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apply suggestion Lib/_pyrepl/utils.py
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3 changes: 3 additions & 0 deletions Lib/_pyrepl/utils.py
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Expand Up @@ -63,6 +63,9 @@ class ColorSpan(NamedTuple):
def str_width(c: str) -> int:
if ord(c) < 128:
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unrelated to this issue but quite a few of the characters with ord < 128, do not have a display width of 1

for example, in my terminal, tab (ord 9) is 8 charaters wide

something to consider for a future PR

return 1
# gh-139246 for zero-width joiner and combining characters
if unicodedata.combining(c) or unicodedata.category(c) == "Cf":
return 0
w = unicodedata.east_asian_width(c)
if w in ("N", "Na", "H", "A"):
return 1
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22 changes: 21 additions & 1 deletion Lib/test/test_pyrepl/test_utils.py
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class TestUtils(TestCase):
def test_str_width(self):
characters = ['a', '1', '_', '!', '\x1a', '\u263A', '\uffb9']
characters = [
'a',
'1',
'_',
'!',
'\x1a',
'\u263A',
'\uffb9',
'\N{LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH ACUTE}', # é
'\N{LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH CEDILLA}', # ȩ
]
for c in characters:
self.assertEqual(str_width(c), 1)

zero_width_characters = [
'\N{COMBINING ACUTE ACCENT}',
'\N{ZERO WIDTH JOINER}',
]
for c in zero_width_characters:
with self.subTest(character=c):
self.assertEqual(str_width(c), 0)

characters = [chr(99989), chr(99999)]
for c in characters:
self.assertEqual(str_width(c), 2)
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self.assertEqual(wlen('hello'), 5)
self.assertEqual(wlen('hello' + '\x1a'), 7)
self.assertEqual(wlen('e\N{COMBINING ACUTE ACCENT}'), 1)
self.assertEqual(wlen('a\N{ZERO WIDTH JOINER}b'), 2)

def test_prev_next_window(self):
def gen_normal():
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fix: paste zero-width in default repl width is wrong.
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