indico/util/text.py

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  16
  17 from re import sub
  18
  19
  20 def wordsCounter(value):
  21     fullStr = value + " "
  22     leftTrimmedStr = sub(r'^[^A-Za-z0-9]+', "", fullStr)
  23     cleanedStr = sub(r'[^A-Za-z0-9]+', " ", leftTrimmedStr)
  24     splitString = cleanedStr.split(" ")
  25     wordCount = len(splitString) - 1
  26     if (len(fullStr) < 2):
  27         wordCount = 0
  28     return wordCount