#!/usr/bin/env python """ Fenced Code Extension for Python Markdown ========================================= This extension adds Fenced Code Blocks to Python-Markdown. >>> import markdown >>> text = ''' ... A paragraph before a fenced code block: ... ... ~~~ ... Fenced code block ... ~~~ ... ''' >>> html = markdown.markdown(text, extensions=['fenced_code']) >>> html u'

A paragraph before a fenced code block:

\\n
Fenced code block\\n
' Works with safe_mode also (we check this because we are using the HtmlStash): >>> markdown.markdown(text, extensions=['fenced_code'], safe_mode='replace') u'

A paragraph before a fenced code block:

\\n
Fenced code block\\n
' Include tilde's in a code block and wrap with blank lines: >>> text = ''' ... ~~~~~~~~ ... ... ~~~~ ... ... ~~~~~~~~''' >>> markdown.markdown(text, extensions=['fenced_code']) u'
\\n~~~~\\n\\n
' Multiple blocks and language tags: >>> text = ''' ... ~~~~{.python} ... block one ... ~~~~ ... ... ~~~~.html ...

block two

... ~~~~''' >>> markdown.markdown(text, extensions=['fenced_code']) u'
block one\\n
\\n\\n
<p>block two</p>\\n
' Copyright 2007-2008 [Waylan Limberg](http://achinghead.com/). Project website: Contact: markdown@freewisdom.org License: BSD (see ../docs/LICENSE for details) Dependencies: * [Python 2.3+](http://python.org) * [Markdown 2.0+](http://www.freewisdom.org/projects/python-markdown/) """ import markdown, re # Global vars FENCED_BLOCK_RE = re.compile( \ r'(?P^~{3,})[ ]*(\{?\.(?P[a-zA-Z0-9_-]*)\}?)?[ ]*\n(?P.*?)(?P=fence)[ ]*$', re.MULTILINE|re.DOTALL ) CODE_WRAP = '
%s
' LANG_TAG = ' class="%s"' class FencedCodeExtension(markdown.Extension): def extendMarkdown(self, md, md_globals): """ Add FencedBlockPreprocessor to the Markdown instance. """ md.preprocessors.add('fenced_code_block', FencedBlockPreprocessor(md), "_begin") class FencedBlockPreprocessor(markdown.preprocessors.Preprocessor): def run(self, lines): """ Match and store Fenced Code Blocks in the HtmlStash. """ text = "\n".join(lines) while 1: m = FENCED_BLOCK_RE.search(text) if m: lang = '' if m.group('lang'): lang = LANG_TAG % m.group('lang') code = CODE_WRAP % (lang, self._escape(m.group('code'))) placeholder = self.markdown.htmlStash.store(code, safe=True) text = '%s\n%s\n%s'% (text[:m.start()], placeholder, text[m.end():]) else: break return text.split("\n") def _escape(self, txt): """ basic html escaping """ txt = txt.replace('&', '&') txt = txt.replace('<', '<') txt = txt.replace('>', '>') txt = txt.replace('"', '"') return txt def makeExtension(configs=None): return FencedCodeExtension() if __name__ == "__main__": import doctest doctest.testmod()