[Python-markdown-discuss] Escape character and backtick bug.

[Blake W. <bw...@la...>]

(Apologies if any of you get this twice, I had a hiccup with my mail server.)
(Uh, third time's a charm?)

Looking at http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax.php#backslash
Markdown provides backslash escapes for the following characters:
[...]
`   backtick

And yet, when I try it in (using markdown-1.6-py2.4.egg)

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   >>> from markdown import markdown
   >>> x = "\\`This should not be in code.\\`"
   >>> print x
\`This should not be in code.\`
   >>> print markdown( x )

<p>\<code>This should not be in code.\</code>
</p>



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So I edit the code a little, as so (also attached):
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=== modified file 'markdown.py'
--- markdown.py 2008-02-15 21:28:18 +0000
+++ markdown.py 2008-02-15 21:28:30 +0000
@@ -944,9 +944,9 @@
            self.prePatterns = []


-        self.inlinePatterns = [ DOUBLE_BACKTICK_PATTERN,
+        self.inlinePatterns = [ ESCAPE_PATTERN,
+                               DOUBLE_BACKTICK_PATTERN,
                                    BACKTICK_PATTERN,
-                               ESCAPE_PATTERN,
                                   IMAGE_LINK_PATTERN,
                                    IMAGE_REFERENCE_PATTERN,
                                    REFERENCE_PATTERN,
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and that gives me:
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   >>> from markdown import markdown
   >>> x = "\\`This should not be in code.\\`"
   >>> print x
\`This should not be in code.\`
   >>>
   >>> print markdown( x )

<p>`This should not be in code.`
</p>



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Which I believe is closer to the spec.

Thanks,
Blake.