def _get_entry_summary(self, entry):
"""Gets the summary of an rss entry, unless it is empty, in which case it gets an abbreviated html/content
excerpt.
"""
result = self.gets(entry, 'summary', '') #empty summary or no key returns empty string, use stripped html
if not result:
html = self._get_entry_html(entry)
stripped = taoutils.strip_html(html)
result = stripped
return result[:300]
def _contentitem_to_postable(self, contentitem):
"""Convert a tweet into a string for posting to twitter."""
result = taoutils.strip_html(contentitem['html'])
result = taoutils.decode_html(result)
return str(result)