From f0b533098cacf86fd44d0fee42941bdc38d41c6d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jeremy Fincher <jemfinch@users.sourceforge.net>
Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2003 09:07:45 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Added a return value to shrinkList, the number of things
 removed from the list.

---
 src/ircutils.py | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/ircutils.py b/src/ircutils.py
index f9c2eb470..7472f330e 100644
--- a/src/ircutils.py
+++ b/src/ircutils.py
@@ -293,8 +293,11 @@ def privmsgPayload(L, sep, limit=425):
 def shrinkList(L, sep='', limit=425):
     """Shrinks a list of strings to a given combined length of limit."""
     length = len(sep)
+    count = 0
     while reduce(operator.add, map(length.__add__, map(len, L)), 0)> limit:
           L.pop()
+          count += 1
+    return count
 
 
 class IrcString(str):