diff --git a/pysnooper/tracer.py b/pysnooper/tracer.py
index 760e16c..f4860ab 100644
--- a/pysnooper/tracer.py
+++ b/pysnooper/tracer.py
@@ -9,10 +9,12 @@ import datetime as datetime_module
 
 import six
 
+MAX_VARIABLE_LENGTH = 100
+
 def get_shortish_repr(item):
     r = repr(item)
-    if len(r) > 100:
-        r = '{truncated_r}...'.format(truncated_r=r[:97])
+    if len(r) > MAX_VARIABLE_LENGTH:
+        r = '{truncated_r}...'.format(truncated_r=r[:MAX_VARIABLE_LENGTH])
     return r
 
 def get_local_reprs(frame, variables=()):
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 72c1971..fb483db 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ import setuptools
 
 setuptools.setup(
     name='PySnooper',
-    version='0.0.8',
+    version='0.0.9',
     author='Ram Rachum',
     author_email='ram@rachum.com',
     description="A poor man's debugger for Python.",