def get_recent_changelog()

in devtools/setup.py [0:0]

• 17 lines of code
• 8 McCabe index (conditional complexity)

def get_recent_changelog(filename):
    """Grab the entry for the latest release."""
    contents = read(filename).split("\n")
    # Skip the title (first two lines)
    contents = contents[2:]

    # Find the latest release
    start_line, end_line = None, None
    for i, line in enumerate(contents):
        # if we've found the start & end, we're done
        if all([start_line, end_line]):
            break

        # 4 dashes are a horizontal line in rST, so look for headers with 5+
        if line.startswith("-----"):
            if start_line is None:
                start_line = i - 1
                continue
            if end_line is None:
                end_line = i - 1
                continue

    recent_log_lines = contents[start_line:end_line]
    recent_log = "\n".join(recent_log_lines)
    return recent_log