[Python-markdown-discuss] HTML Encoding Issues within Output of Custom Extension

[andrew t. <ath...@gm...>]

Hello,

I am kind of new to python, but I needed the ability to insert a
gallery into my django project. I have been working on creating a
python markdown extension that will insert an image gallery within my
django project when a custom tag is used. The actual extension is
working, but the HTML that the extension returns is all encoded. Here
is the extension that I am using:

    #!/usr/bin/env python
    from django.template.loader import render_to_string
    from main.models import *

    import markdown

    version = "0.1.0"

    class GalleriaExtension(markdown.Extension):
        def __init__(self, configs):
            self.config = {
            }

            # Override defaults with user settings
            for key, value in configs:
                self.setConfig(key, value)

        def add_inline(self, md, name, klass, re):
            pattern = klass(re)
            pattern.md = md
            pattern.ext = self
            md.inlinePatterns.add(name, pattern, "<reference")

        def extendMarkdown(self, md, md_globals):
            self.add_inline(md, 'galleria', Galleria,
                r'\[\[(G|g)allery (?P<superpage_id>\w+)\]\]')

    class Galleria(markdown.inlinepatterns.Pattern):
        def handleMatch(self, m):
            try:
                images =
SuperPage.objects.get(id=m.group('superpage_id')).superpageimage_set.all()
            except:
                images = None
            if images:
                rendered = render_to_string('galleria.html', {
'images': images })
            else:
                rendered = '<b>There are no images for the given ID</b>'
            return rendered

    def makeExtension(configs=None) :
        return GalleriaExtension(configs=configs)

I ensured that django's render_to_string was actually returning html
that was not encoded. From the shell here is an example of the output:

Output from render_to_string:

    >>> from django.template.loader import render_to_string
    >>> images = SuperPage.objects.get(id=8).superpageimage_set.all()
    >>> render_to_string('galleria.html', { 'images': images })
    u'<div class=\'galleria_std\'>\n    <div class=\'gallery\' >\n
 <div id=\'stage_gallery\' >\n'

Here is output from markdown extension that is encoded:

    >>>markdown.markdown('test [[gallery 8]] test', ['galleria'])
    u'<p>test &lt;div class=\'galleria_std\'&gt;\n    &lt;div
class=\'gallery\' &gt;\n'


How can I make rendered return HTML mark up instead of encoded markup
when using the markdown extension? Also, I would appreciate any
pointers on coding this differently (syntax, layout, etc). I
appreciate it.

Thanks