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#!/usr/bin/python

string = "this is just a test string"
end = ""
max = 10

for word in string.split(' '):
    if len(end) + len(word) < max:
        end += " %s" % word
    else:
        end += " ..."
        break

print "string = %s" % string
print "short string = %s" % end