Re: [Python-markdown-discuss] Can the 'meta' extension output an unchanged body minus metadata?

[Ian G. J. <ia...@ho...>]

Something like a `Body` attribute that holds the original body seems 
like it's within the scope of a MultiMarkdown metadata extension, 
because MultiMarkdown describes both how metadata and the body are 
defined.

If you think this is outside of the scope of the extension though I 
totally understand. Sprawling programs are really gross.

Ian

P.S. If anyone does know about a standalone MultiMarkdown metadata 
parser I'd love to hear about it!


On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 12:07:14AM +0000, Waylan Limberg wrote:
>I can't imagine how this would be useful. Isn't the point of the 
>markdown parser to parse markdown and get html? If you want to do 
>some preprocessing before passing your text into markdown, then my 
>suggestion would be to do the preprocessing before passing the text 
>into markdown. If that means reimplementing your own metadata 
>processor, then that is probably what you should do. For instance, a 
>static site generator may do this so it can allow the markup language 
>of the document to be defined in the metadata. In such a situation, 
>Python-Markdown's Metedata extension would not be the tool for the 
>job.
>
>Waylan
>
>On 1/28/2014 7:03:37 PM, "Ian G. Jeffries" <ia...@ho...> 
>wrote:
>
>>Hey folks,
>>
>>I'd like to use the 'meta' extension to get a Python string which 
>>consists of the body of the post without the metadata, but 
>>otherwise unchanged.
>>
>>I've got my own code to do this which works fine, but I was 
>>wondering if there was a built-in option to do this that I missed. 
>>If not would it be a good thing to have added?
>>
>>Cheers!
>>
>>Ian Jeffries