Add helper for getting word count from draft

- Legacy-Id: 12655
2017-01-16 11:35:48 +00:00 · 2017-01-16 11:35:48 +00:00 · 34a9f36534
parent 656ed8c89d
commit 34a9f36534
1 changed files with 9 additions and 0 deletions
--- a/ietf/utils/draft.py
+++ b/ietf/utils/draft.py
@ -292,6 +292,15 @@ class Draft():
                self._pagecount = count_pages
        return self._pagecount

+    # ------------------------------------------------------------------
+    def get_wordcount(self):
+        count = 0
+        # match any sequence of non-white-space characters like the Unix command "wc"
+        word_re = re.compile(r'\S+', re.UNICODE)
+        for l in self.lines:
+            count += sum(1 for _ in word_re.finditer(l))
+        return count
+
    # ----------------------------------------------------------------------
    def get_status(self):
        if self._status == None: