cubicweb/ext/markdown.py
author Denis Laxalde <denis.laxalde@logilab.fr>
Wed, 06 Jun 2018 11:56:15 +0200
changeset 12311 4d8268ef1fb7
parent 11057 0b59724cb3f2
permissions -rw-r--r--
[py3] Decode subprocess stdout in toolsutils.show_diffs() On Python 3, subprocess' pipes are bytes stream so we must decode them before printing. Without this change, diff of configuration files (e.g. all-in-one.conf as displayed upon instance upgrade) will rendered as a single line on Python 3.

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