Planet Carleton

[Baz]

On 5/3/06, Matt Bockol <mbockol at carleton.edu> wrote:
> Rather than have
> the full entries, though, we've opted to clip them at a certain word
> count.  Our CMS is doing the clipping and it's a fairly expensive
> process (because I don't want to clip in the middle of embedded HTML
> tags).
[snip]
> I'd be game to add it if it wasn't there already, but it would mean
> teaching myself Python, whereas I could whip up the Perl script in about
> 10 minutes :)  Anyone know if this is built in somewhere already?  I
> might give Python a whack if someone could provide some pointers where
> to begin in the existing code.

I posted some code for this when the issue last came up:
http://lists.waugh.id.au/archives/devel/2006-March/000698.html
its not ready to drop right in but it's a place to start.

-Baz