bgneal@124: """
bgneal@124: This is a thin wrapper around the Markdown class which deals with the
bgneal@124: differences in Markdown versions on the production and development server.
bgneal@124: This code was inspired by the code in 
bgneal@124: django/contrib/markup/templatetags/markup.py.
bgneal@124: Currently, we only have to worry about Markdown 1.6b and 2.0.
bgneal@124: """
bgneal@124: import markdown as _markdown
bgneal@124: from django.utils.encoding import force_unicode
bgneal@124: 
bgneal@124: from smiley.utils import smilify
bgneal@124: 
bgneal@124: class Markdown(object):
bgneal@124: 
bgneal@124:     def __init__(self, safe_mode='escape'):
bgneal@124:         # Unicode support only in markdown v1.7 or above. Version_info
bgneal@124:         # exists only in markdown v1.6.2rc-2 or above.
bgneal@124:         self.unicode_support = getattr(_markdown, "version_info", None) >= (1, 7)
bgneal@124:         self.md = _markdown.Markdown(safe_mode=safe_mode)
bgneal@124: 
bgneal@124:     def convert(self, s):
bgneal@124:         if self.unicode_support:
bgneal@124:             return self.md.convert(force_unicode(s))
bgneal@124:         else:
bgneal@124:             return force_unicode(self.md.convert(s))
bgneal@124: 
bgneal@124: 
bgneal@124: def markdown(s):
bgneal@124:     md = Markdown()
bgneal@124:     return md.convert(s)