Re: [Python-markdown-discuss] Python-Markdown 2.0 Release Candidate

[Ron G. <ron...@gm...>]

On Mar 23, 2009, at 1:08 PM, Waylan Limberg wrote:

> Thanks for the feedback Ron. I've responded you your concerns below to
> keep things in context.
>
> On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 3:19 PM, Ron Garret <ron...@gm...>  
> wrote:
>> My pleasure.  Thanks for the code :-)
>>
>> Couple of comments.  These are really design issues, not bugs, but  
>> FWIW:
>>
>> 1.  The wikilink behavior has changed in a non-backwards-compatible  
>> way.
>>  Before, [[WikiLink]] and [[wiki link]] were equivalent.  Now they  
>> are not.
>>  Personally, I preferred the old way.
>
> What was the old way? I don't remember changing that. Could you
> provide an example of the current output and the expected output?
>


The old one converted spaces to CamelCase.  The new one converts  
spaces to underscores.


Old:

Python 2.6.1 (r261:67515, Dec  6 2008, 16:42:21)
[GCC 4.0.1 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 5370)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
 >>> import markdown
 >>> markdown.version
'1.7'
 >>> markdown.markdown('[[wiki link]]',['wikilink'])
u'<p><a href="/WikiLink/" class="wikilink">wiki link</a>\n</p>'


New:

 >>> import markdown
 >>> markdown.version
'2.0-rc1'
 >>> markdown.markdown('[[wiki link]]',['wikilinks'])
u'<p><a class="wikilink" href="/wiki_link/">wiki link</a></p>'
 >>>

rg