It is pretty easy to truncate a string in Python. For example:
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>>> s = 'Some simple string. This should be cut off.'
>>> print s[0:28]
Some simple string. This sho
>>> The problem is that it isn’t the nicest looking thing in the world…wouldn’t this be better:
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>>>
>>> from trunc import *
>>> s = 'Some simple string. This should be cut off.'
>>> print trunc(s,max_pos=25)
Some simple string...
>>> This simple little function attempts to make a better looking, but shorter, string out of your input string. I use it to shorten large text fields from databases into smaller chunks suitable for use in summary tables.
