How about slicing to 1000 (or however much you want to be safe that you'll get 200 of non-tags), then strip, then slice down to 200.
For a slightly different approach there is a patch I wrote for providing an html-aware truncatewords filter at http://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/2027 which you could try using. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
