[Python-markdown-discuss] Getting rid of stash and postprocessing

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

A while ago, I guess around November, I began working on some changes to
markdown.py that would completely eliminate the need for regular
expressions, or searching through a string for patterns to be replaced
with other text.

I was mostly successful.  I got rid of the Stash concept completely, as
well as postprocessing.  The change resulted in markdown.py being 260
lines shorter, and although I didn't time it I'm certain my changes
result in quicker run times.

I had intended to clean it up so that it passed all the included tests
and then announce it to the list, but around October I started playing
around with ikiwiki.  I liked it so much that I dropped my wiki project,
and therefore quit working on the python markdown implementation.

If anybody's interested in what I've done, you can check out my git
project:

    http://woozle.org/~neale/gitweb.cgi?p=py-markdown

or you can pull in my git tree:

    http://woozle.org/~neale/projects/py-markdown/

I'm happy to answer questions but I don't think I have it in my to do
any more work on things.  Hopefully this is of some use to the project.

Neale