--- /dev/null Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
+++ b/ext/markdown.py Wed Apr 30 21:04:14 2014 +0200
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+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