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Making the jquery tabbed version of the messages app the current version and removing the old. Also figured out how to dynamically update the base template's count of unread messages when messages are read.
author Brian Neal <bgneal@gmail.com>
date Tue, 03 May 2011 02:56:58 +0000
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"""
Markup related utitlities useful for the entire project.
"""
import markdown as _markdown
from django.utils.encoding import force_unicode

from smiley import SmilifyMarkdown

class Markdown(object):
    """
    This is a thin wrapper around the Markdown class which deals with the
    differences in Markdown versions on the production and development server.
    This code was inspired by the code in
    django/contrib/markup/templatetags/markup.py.
    Currently, we only have to worry about Markdown 1.6b and 2.0.
    """
    def __init__(self, safe_mode='escape'):
        # Unicode support only in markdown v1.7 or above. Version_info
        # exists only in markdown v1.6.2rc-2 or above.
        self.unicode_support = getattr(_markdown, "version_info", None) >= (1, 7)
        self.md = _markdown.Markdown(safe_mode=safe_mode,
                                extensions=['urlize', 'nl2br', 'del'])

    def convert(self, s):
        if self.unicode_support:
            return self.md.convert(force_unicode(s))
        else:
            return force_unicode(self.md.convert(s))


def markdown(s):
    """
    A convenience function for one-off markdown jobs.
    """
    md = Markdown()
    return md.convert(s)


class SiteMarkup(object):
    """
    This class provides site markup by combining markdown and
    our own smiley markup.
    """
    def __init__(self):
        self.md = Markdown()
        self.smiley = SmilifyMarkdown()

    def convert(self, s):
        return self.md.convert(self.smiley.convert(s))


def site_markup(s):
    """
    Convenience function for one-off site markup jobs.
    """
    sm = SiteMarkup()
    return sm.convert(s)