Never mind found it I guess my nicedit wasn't adding <p> tags but <br>
On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 10:12 AM, Andrew Evans <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Bruno ty for the reply. > > I am just trying to figure out that code but for some reason it isn't > displaying the post_body when I view the page > > Any ideas in how to fix this? > > def index(): > posts = db(db.posts.id > 0).select(orderby=~db.posts.id, limitby=(0, > 10)) > for post in posts: > if len(post.post_body) > 1000: # Preview > should be about 1000 chars > index = post.post_body.find("</p>", 1000, -1) + 4 # find > the index of the next </p> and add 4 chars > post.post_body = post.post_body[0:index] # > replace the body of the post post with short version > return dict(rows=posts) >
