From 34a9f36534a907ee52e1a387abe8d4385219a2df Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ole Laursen <olau@iola.dk>
Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2017 11:35:48 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Add helper for getting word count from draft  - Legacy-Id:
 12655

---
 ietf/utils/draft.py | 9 +++++++++
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)

diff --git a/ietf/utils/draft.py b/ietf/utils/draft.py
index 896e15a7b..a6cde5a99 100755
--- 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: