#!/usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

"""Get a summary of the TEXT-format document"""

def get_summary(text, count):
u"""Get the first `count` characters from `text`

>>> text = u'Welcome 這是一篇關于Python的文章'
>>> get_summary(text, 12) == u'Welcome 這是一篇'
True
"""
assert(isinstance(text, unicode))
return text[0:count]

if __name__ == '__main__':
import doctest
doctest.testmod()

#!/usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

"""Get a raw summary of the HTML-format document"""

from HTMLParser import HTMLParser

class SummaryHTMLParser(HTMLParser):
"""Parse HTML text to get a summary

>>> text = u'<p>Hi guys:</p><p>This is a example using SummaryHTMLParser.</p>'
>>> parser = SummaryHTMLParser(10)
>>> parser.feed(text)
>>> parser.get_summary(u'...')
u'<p>Higuys:Thi...</p>'
"""
def __init__(self, count):
HTMLParser.__init__(self)
self.count = count
self.summary = u''

def feed(self, data):
"""Only accept unicode `data`"""
assert(isinstance(data, unicode))
HTMLParser.feed(self, data)

def handle_data(self, data):
more = self.count - len(self.summary)
if more > 0:
# Remove possible whitespaces in `data`
data_without_whitespace = u''.join(data.split())

self.summary += data_without_whitespace[0:more]

def get_summary(self, suffix=u'', wrapper=u'p'):
return u'<{0}>{1}{2}</{0}>'.format(wrapper, self.summary, suffix)

if __name__ == '__main__':
import doctest
doctest.testmod()