Re: [Python-markdown-discuss] Bug with different list types

[Alan H. <ala...@gm...>]

Insidious!

Thanks for the response. I’ve fired off what I hope to be a reasonable plea stating my case to the Markdown mailing list.

+1s will be appreciated!

Alan

On Tuesday, May 31, 2011 at 7:27 AM, Waylan Limberg wrote:

> On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 5:13 AM, Alan Hogan <ala...@gm... (mailto:ala...@gm...)> wrote:
> > If you have a bulleted list followed by a numbered list, or vice-versa, this
> > library converts all the following list elements to the first element's
> > type. Even when there is a blank line between lists.
> 
> Correct, a blank line does not start a new list but indicates that the
> contents of the list items should be wrapped in <p> tags. Therefore
> blanks lines will never start a new list.
> 
> Regarding the change of list type, as you note, Gruber's
> implementation ignores that as well. As he created Markdown he gets to
> decide how that is implemented. Until his implementation is updated,
> Python-Markdown will continue to support the current behavior. Btw,
> this issue has been debated to no end on the markdown mailing list.
> But the result is always the same.
> 
> Of course, using our extension API [1], you could build your own list
> parser which would replace the default and have whatever behavior you
> want. We just won't include that in our default implementation.
> 
> [1]: http://www.freewisdom.org/projects/python-markdown/Writing_Extensions
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