''' Abbreviation Extension for Python-Markdown ========================================== This extension adds abbreviation handling to Python-Markdown. Simple Usage: >>> import markdown >>> text = """ ... Some text with an ABBR and a REF. Ignore REFERENCE and ref. ... ... *[ABBR]: Abbreviation ... *[REF]: Abbreviation Reference ... """ >>> markdown.markdown(text, ['abbr']) u'

Some text with an ABBR and a REF. Ignore REFERENCE and ref.

' Copyright 2007-2008 * [Waylan Limberg](http://achinghead.com/) * [Seemant Kulleen](http://www.kulleen.org/) ''' import markdown, re from markdown import etree # Global Vars ABBR_REF_RE = re.compile(r'[*]\[(?P[^\]]*)\][ ]?:\s*(?P.*)') class AbbrExtension(markdown.Extension): """ Abbreviation Extension for Python-Markdown. """ def extendMarkdown(self, md, md_globals): """ Insert AbbrPreprocessor before ReferencePreprocessor. """ md.preprocessors.add('abbr', AbbrPreprocessor(md), '<reference') class AbbrPreprocessor(markdown.preprocessors.Preprocessor): """ Abbreviation Preprocessor - parse text for abbr references. """ def run(self, lines): ''' Find and remove all Abbreviation references from the text. Each reference is set as a new AbbrPattern in the markdown instance. ''' new_text = [] for line in lines: m = ABBR_REF_RE.match(line) if m: abbr = m.group('abbr').strip() title = m.group('title').strip() self.markdown.inlinePatterns['abbr-%s'%abbr] = \ AbbrPattern(self._generate_pattern(abbr), title) else: new_text.append(line) return new_text def _generate_pattern(self, text): ''' Given a string, returns an regex pattern to match that string. 'HTML' -> r'(?P<abbr>[H][T][M][L])' Note: we force each char as a literal match (in brackets) as we don't know what they will be beforehand. ''' chars = list(text) for i in range(len(chars)): chars[i] = r'[%s]' % chars[i] return r'(?P<abbr>\b%s\b)' % (r''.join(chars)) class AbbrPattern(markdown.inlinepatterns.Pattern): """ Abbreviation inline pattern. """ def __init__(self, pattern, title): markdown.inlinepatterns.Pattern.__init__(self, pattern) self.title = title def handleMatch(self, m): abbr = etree.Element('abbr') abbr.text = m.group('abbr') abbr.set('title', self.title) return abbr def makeExtension(configs=None): return AbbrExtension(configs=configs) if __name__ == "__main__": import doctest doctest.testmod()