From 373203863a8c1cd1a75f8fa947fb93d2b7d21da0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Julien Rioux <jrioux@physics.utoronto.ca>
Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2011 07:49:02 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Regtest script: Allow to customize the length of shortened
 strings.

---
 scripts/build/output-distance.py | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/scripts/build/output-distance.py b/scripts/build/output-distance.py
index 941f879f47..647d7bd7af 100755
--- a/scripts/build/output-distance.py
+++ b/scripts/build/output-distance.py
@@ -53,8 +53,7 @@ def system (c):
         raise Exception ("failed")
     return
 
-def shorten_string (s):
-    threshold = 15
+def shorten_string (s, threshold = 15):
     if len (s) > 2*threshold:
         s = s[:threshold] + '..' + s[-threshold:]
     return s
-- 
2.39.5