[Python-markdown-discuss] AtomicString

[Neale P. <ne...@wo...>]

I was the one who suggested the AtomicString change that's recently been
committed.  It's probably time to move discussion to the mail list.

I'm writing a wiki and what prompted the change was that this:

    <http://example.com/CamelCase/foo>

Would turn into this:

    <a href="http://example.com/CamelCase/foo">http://example.com/<a
       href="CamelCase.wki">CamelCase</a>/foo</a>

AtomicString fixes that by creating a new String class (inherits from
unicode, actually) that won't receive further processing.  Then it's a
simple matter of setting `e.text = AtomicString(whatever)`.

I have a new problem in my WikiLinkPattern class.  Here is some
debugging output:

    handlematch u'If you are new to wiki, check out WikiHelp.'

    handlematch u'If you are new to wiki, check out \x02inline:WikiLinkPattern:0000\x03.'

    handlematch u'If you are new to wiki, check out \x02inline:\x02inline:WikiLinkPattern:0001\x03:0000\x03.'

ad infinitum.  My WikiLink regex is matching the inline thingy.

I know the upstream dudes are at least pondering removing inline
entirely, possibly using a mechanism like AtomicString.  Should I hold
off on fixing this locally?

Neale