truncating strings

[Ethan Furman]

Seebs wrote:
> On 2011-08-23, Ethan Furman <ethan at stoneleaf.us> wrote:
>> Seebs wrote:
>>> On 2011-08-23, Roy Smith <roy at panix.com> wrote:
>>>>           logger.error("FAILED: '%s{50}', '%s', %s, %s" % (message,
>>>> route, params, e.code))
> 
>>>> does anything like this exist?
> 
>>> %.50s
> 
>> That's not working in 2.7 or 3.2.
> 
> Huh.
> 
> 	Python 2.6.1 (r261:67515, Jun 24 2010, 21:47:49)
> 	[GCC 4.2.1 (Apple Inc. build 5646)] on darwin
> 	Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
> 	>>> print "%.5s" % ("hello there, truncate me!")
> 	hello

Ah -- that's only part of it -- the OP wants '...' to print as well.  :)

~Ethan~