Rough mockup of subreddit page.

rtv/utils.py

@@ -52,28 +52,28 @@ def curses_session():
             curses.nocbreak()
             curses.endwin()
 
-def humanize_timestamp(utc_timestamp):
+def humanize_timestamp(utc_timestamp, long=True):
     """
     Convert a utc timestamp into a human readable time relative to now.
     """
     timedelta = datetime.utcnow() - datetime.utcfromtimestamp(utc_timestamp)
     seconds = int(timedelta.total_seconds())
     if seconds < 60:
-        return 'moments ago'
+        return 'moments ago' if long else '0min'
     minutes = seconds / 60
     if minutes < 60:
-        return '{} minutes ago'.format(minutes)
+        return '%d' % minutes + (' minutes ago' if long else 'min')
     hours = minutes / 60
     if hours < 24:
-        return '{} hours ago'.format(hours)
+        return '%d' % hours + (' hours ago' if long else 'hr')
     days = hours / 24
     if days < 30:
-        return '{} days ago'.format(days)
+        return '%d' % days + (' days ago' if long else 'day')
     months = days / 30.4
     if months < 12:
-        return '{} months ago'.format(months)
+        return '%d' % months + (' months ago' if long else 'month')
     years = months / 12
-    return '{} years ago'.format(years)
+    return '%d' % years + (' years ago' if long else 'yr')
 
 
 def flatten_tree(tree):
@@ -95,4 +95,9 @@ def flatten_tree(tree):
                 n.nested_level = item.nested_level + 1
             stack[0:0] = nested
         retval.append(item)
-    return retval
+    return retval
+
+
+def clean(unicode_string):
+    "Convert unicode string into ascii-safe characters."
+    return unicode_string.encode('ascii', 'replace').replace('\\', '')