if post.body is a string, you can do post.body[:30] like you would do with a normal python string. You can't get fancy with a post.body[:27] + '...' just for the sake of being "polite.
The problem in your code is that you're "truncating" a source of something that needs to be truncated at the right position.....e.g. if you're inside a blockquote and you don't close the "quote", you'll be left with an "uncorrect" representation of the truncated markmin ..... e.g. - a list -- ``web2py lorem ipsum etcetcetc ... .... ``:code if your truncation leaves the last line out, the generated HTML might not be correct. On Monday, January 14, 2013 5:52:49 PM UTC+1, [email protected] wrote: > > {{ for post in posts:}} > <h2> > <a href="{{=URL(r=request,f='view_post',args=post.id)}}"> > {{=post.title}} > </a> > </h2> > {{=WIKI(post.body|truncate:30)}} > {{pass}} > > Thanks in avance. something similar to Django |truncate:x > --
