X-Git-Url: https://wannabe.guru.org/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=google_news_rss_renderer.py;h=b4290f3f6c0c9628ebf1b61150fe044e31abdbef;hb=d6990436e08a57ce211b10058dc61fb223cb94ec;hp=334f10d96345fd63165d9d8bf1a4a39809bdc5ba;hpb=0e2601682b4629eb425f2d20a3c4ca3d592d3cbe;p=kiosk.git

diff --git a/google_news_rss_renderer.py b/google_news_rss_renderer.py
index 334f10d..b4290f3 100644
--- a/google_news_rss_renderer.py
+++ b/google_news_rss_renderer.py
@@ -27,11 +27,20 @@ class google_news_rss_renderer(generic_news_rss_renderer.generic_news_rss_render
             descr = descr + " (%s)" % source
         return descr
 
+    def munge_description_internal(self, descr):
+        if len(descr) > 450:
+            descr = descr[:450]
+            descr = re.sub(r"\<[^\>]*$", "", descr)
+            descr = descr + " [...]"
+        descr += "</A></LI></UL></OL></P>"
+        return descr
+
     def munge_description(self, description):
         soup = BeautifulSoup(description)
         for a in soup.findAll('a'):
             del a['href']
-        return str(soup)
+        descr = str(soup)
+        return munge_description_internal(descr)
 
     def find_image(self, item):
         return None
@@ -55,3 +64,8 @@ class google_news_rss_renderer(generic_news_rss_renderer.generic_news_rss_render
 #if x.fetch_news() == 0:
 #    print("Error fetching news, no items fetched.")
 #x.shuffle_news()
+#
+#descr = "this is a lot of really long text about nothign in particular.  It's pretty interesting, don't you think?  I hope that the munge description method works by both truncating it and remembering to close any open <LI>items as well as making sure not to truncate in the middle of a <A HREF=\"whatever\" these are a bunch of useless arguments to the A tag that make it really long so that the truncate will happen in the middle of it.  I'm getting kind of tired of typing shit so I'm going to revert to copy pasta now.  Sorry if you were getting into this story.  The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.  The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.  The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.  The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.  The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.  The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.  The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.  The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.  The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.  The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.  The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.  The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.  The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.  The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.  The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.  The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.  The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.  The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.</A></LI> Out!"
+#d = x.munge_description_internal(descr)
+#print(d)
+