from __future__ import absolute_import

import markdown

import logging

log = logging.getLogger(__name__)

def markdown_publish(context, data):

    """publish a string formatted as MarkDown Text to HTML

    :type context: a cubicweb application object

    :type data: str

    :param data: some MarkDown text

    :rtype: unicode

    :return:

      the data formatted as HTML or the original data if an error occurred

    """

    md = markdown.Markdown()

    try:

        return md.convert(data)

    except:

        import traceback; traceback.print_exc()

        log.exception("Error while converting Markdown to HTML")

        return data