TruncateChars

 1
 2
 3
 4
 5
 6
 7
 8
 9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
from django import template
register = template.Library()

@register.filter
def truncatechars(s, num):
    """
    Truncates a word after a given number of chars  
    Argument: Number of chars to truncate after
    """
    length = int(num)
    string = []
    for word in s.split():
        if len(word) > length:
            string.append(word[:length]+'...')
        else:
            string.append(word)
    return u' '.join(string)

More like this

  1. truncate by alfor 5 years, 1 month ago
  2. Recaptcha with Django Comments by nikolaj 4 years, 5 months ago
  3. truncatechars filter by semente 2 years, 8 months ago
  4. Truncate words by characters by trodrigues 3 years, 12 months ago
  5. nofollow filter by svetlyak 4 years, 10 months ago

Comments

daevaorn (on October 13, 2007):

{{ comment.comment|slice:":20" }} ?

#

Aveal (on October 13, 2007):

@daevaorn

example: comment.comment = soooooooooome huuuuuuuge word

{{ comment.comment|slice:":5" }} = soooo

{{ comment.comment|truncatechars:5 }} = soooo... huuuu... word

#

ChrisRyland (on October 24, 2007):

Nice! This would probably be better named TruncateWords, no?

#

(Forgotten your password?)