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  r76684 | tarek.ziade | 2009-12-06 10:22:40 +0100 (Sun, 06 Dec 2009) | 1 line

  Fixed #1923: make sure we don't strip meaningful whitespace in PKG-INFO Description field
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1 files changed, 16 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Lib/distutils/tests/test_dist.py b/Lib/distutils/tests/test_dist.py
index b1b184e..0e7d532 100644
--- a/Lib/distutils/tests/test_dist.py
+++ b/Lib/distutils/tests/test_dist.py
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ import io
 import sys
 import unittest
 import warnings
+import textwrap
 
 from distutils.dist import Distribution, fix_help_options
 from distutils.cmd import Command
@@ -353,6 +354,21 @@ class MetadataTestCase(support.TempdirManager, support.EnvironGuard,
                   if line.strip() != '']
         self.assertTrue(len(output) > 0)
 
+    def test_long_description(self):
+        long_desc = textwrap.dedent("""\
+        example::
+              We start here
+            and continue here
+          and end here.""")
+        attrs = {"name": "package",
+                 "version": "1.0",
+                 "long_description": long_desc}
+
+        dist = distutils.dist.Distribution(attrs)
+        meta = self.format_metadata(dist)
+        meta = meta.replace('\n' + 8 * ' ', '\n')
+        self.assertTrue(long_desc in meta)
+
 def test_suite():
     suite = unittest.TestSuite()
     suite.addTest(unittest.makeSuite(DistributionTestCase))