Re: [Python-markdown-discuss] Emphasis and strong tags doesn't work around links...

[Artem Y. <ne...@gm...>]

John Szakmeister wrote:
> I was in the process of converting some of my old blog posts, and ran
> across this issue.  Turns out, if you do either: *[]() some text* or
> _[]() some text_, you end up with actual asterisks and underscores
> rather than having thing emphasized.  I first noticed it in an
> unordered list, but it turns out the same problem happens in regular
> text to.  I've attached a sample text file that will reproduce the
> problem.
>
> -John
>   
It's because of InlinePatterns limitations. For now you can use:

[*link*](http://example.com) some text

This bug fixed in GSoC version of markdown - 
http://gitorious.org/projects/python-markdown/repos/gsoc2008
either of variants works:

[*link*](http://example.com) some text

*[link](http://example.com) some text*