ext/markdown.py
author Aurelien Campeas <aurelien.campeas@logilab.fr>
Tue, 03 Jun 2014 16:57:14 +0200
changeset 10331 6f25c7e4f19b
parent 10012 8c2c6fdd8d56
permissions -rw-r--r--
[dbapi] remove the dbapi module and its immediate remaining users We suppress toolsutils.config_connect, which has currently only one known user (the email cube), which is being patched. It can be replaced with utils.admincnx function for a local access. Next will come a series to: * remove the session backward compatibility * fold ClientConnection into Connection Closes #3933480.

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