Re: [Python-markdown-discuss] AtomicString

[Yuri T. <qar...@gm...>]

> Maybe we should use some random hashes, like
> `md5.new(str(random.random())).hexdigest()` ?
> I don't think that users will be handle with placeholders, in case if
> everything works fine.

We could do that, though it might be better to avoid any actual
randomness by using a fixed seed:

def reset_placeholders(seed = DEFAULT_SEED) :
    self.seed = seed
    random.seed(seed)
    self.html_placeholder_prefix  = STX+"%x" % (random.random()*1000000000)
    self.html_placeholder  = self.html_placeholder.prefix  + "%x" + ETX
    ...

and later generate HTML placeholders with

     random.seed(self.seed + i)
     self.html_placeholder % (random.random()*1000000000)

Or something more like:

def get_random_token(n = 10)
    return "".join(["abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyx"[int(random.random()*26)]
for i in range(n)])

def reset_placeholders(seed = DEFAULT_SEED) :
    random.seed(seed)
    self.html_placeholder_prefix  = STX + get_random_token()
    self.html_placeholder  = self.html_placeholder_prefix  + "%s" + ETX

 - yuri

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