[Python-markdown-discuss] Confused about enable_attributes behavior

[Edward S. V. <ed....@gm...>]

I'm a new python-markdown user, so my apologies if this question has
an obvious answer.

Per the library reference's advice regarding safe_mode, I want to
disable attributes.  When I use enable_attributes=False, however, the
first occurrence of a boldfaced or italicized word/phrase truncates
the output until the next paragraph break or heading.  E.g.:

    Python 2.6.5 (r265:79063, Apr 16 2010, 13:09:56)
    [GCC 4.4.3] on linux2
    Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
    >>> import markdown
    >>> markdown.version
    '2.1.1'
    >>> markdown.markdown(' a *test* ', enable_attributes=True)
    u'<p>a <em>test</em> </p>'
    >>> markdown.markdown(' a *test* ', enable_attributes=False)
    u'<p>a </p>'

My expectation was that enable_attributes=False wouldn't change this
behavior.  Am I way off?

Thanks in advance,
Ed

P.S.: See treeprocessors.py starting at line 307.