Python truncate a long string

Question

How to truncate the string to 75 characters only in Python?

This is how it was done in JavaScript:

var data="saddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddsaddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddsadddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddd"
var info = (data.length > 75) ? data.substring[0,75] + '..' : data;

Answer 1

info = (data[:75] + '..') if len(data) > 75 else data

Answer 2

You could use this one-liner:

data = (data[:75] + '..') if len(data) > 75 else data

Answer 3

"%s.." % data[:75] if len(data) > 75 else data

Slicing syntax is described in python manual. Study the manual contents and apply self-help to answer yourself on trivial operations like retrieving a substring.

Answer 4

Even more concise:

data = data[:75]

If it is less than 75 characters there will be no change.

Answer 5

Even shorter :

info = data[:75] + (data[75:] and '..')