ext/markdown.py
author Rabah Meradi <rabah.meradi@logilab.fr>
Wed, 25 Nov 2015 18:31:48 +0100
changeset 10932 cb217b2b3463
parent 10012 8c2c6fdd8d56
permissions -rw-r--r--
[views] remove breadcrumbs usage to retrieve last visited page Use JavaScript history.back to go to the last visited page. Rename _return_to_lastpage to _redirect as it becomes misnamed. Drop `test_redirect_default` test in `unittest_views_basecontrollers` which essentially tested this (now removed) breadcrumbs "feature". Closes #5456850.

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