Re: [Python-markdown-discuss] python-markdown, and wikis.

[Trent M. <tr...@gm...>]

> On Feb 4, 2008 7:50 PM, Blake Winton <bw...@la...> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > uh, you don't know me, but I'm investigating switching a home-grown wiki
> > parser over to use Markdown syntax instead.  Since everything else is
> > written in Python, I'm mainly considering python-markdown and
> > python-markdown2.  I think you guys have the edge in terms of my being
> > able to add wiki links, and generically extend it,
>
> I'd say you nailed it. That about sums up the difference. With
> python-markdown2, you'd need to hack the core to add or change
> behavior. Personally, I'd much rather use python-markdown's extension
> api. In fact if you run into a few dead ends, let us know. We may be
> able to improve the api to make more things possible.

Blake,

I missed the start of this thread, so I may be mistaken at what you
are trying to do, but markdown2.py has a "link-patterns" feature that
you might be able to use for auto-linking WikiWords (I'm not sure if
that was the wiki syntax you are using):

    >>> import re, markdown2
    >>> link_patterns = [
    ...     # Match a wiki page link LikeThis.
    ...     (re.compile(r"(\b[A-Z][a-z]+[A-Z]\w+\b)"), r"/\1")
    ... ]
    >>> processor = markdown2.Markdown(extras=["link-patterns"],
    ...                                link_patterns=link_patterns)
    >>> wiki_page = """
    ... # This is my WikiPage!
    ...
    ... This is AnotherPage and YetAnotherPage.
    ... """
    >>> print processor.convert(wiki_page)
    <h1>This is my <a href="/WikiPage">WikiPage</a>!</h1>

    <p>This is <a href="/AnotherPage">AnotherPage</a> and <a
href="/YetAnotherPage">
    YetAnotherPage</a>.</p>


More details here:
http://code.google.com/p/python-markdown2/wiki/LinkPatterns


Cheers,
Trent

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