ext/markdown.py
author Julien Cristau <julien.cristau@logilab.fr>
Mon, 09 Nov 2015 15:22:43 +0100
changeset 10869 575982c948a9
parent 10012 8c2c6fdd8d56
permissions -rw-r--r--
[dataimport] remove drop_index parameter from massive store "drop_index=False" also implied not dropping any constraints, in particular foreign keys, which meant any attempt to import entities would fail, because we only add metadata (the entities table) after the entity's insertion.

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