1 from __future__ import absolute_import

     2 import markdown

     3 

     4 import logging

     5 

     6 log = logging.getLogger(__name__)

     7 

     8 

     9 def markdown_publish(context, data):

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

    11 

    12     :type context: a cubicweb application object

    13 

    14     :type data: str

    15     :param data: some MarkDown text

    16 

    17     :rtype: unicode

    18     :return:

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

    20     """

    21     md = markdown.Markdown()

    22     try:

    23         return md.convert(data)

    24     except:

    25         import traceback; traceback.print_exc()

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

    27         return data