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Flavoured Markdown
Markdown is good, but it has 2 features that’s hard to explain to inexperienced user:
- it doesn’t convert urls to links automatically
- it doesn’t convert line breaks to html <br> tags
It seems, for 80% cases this would better be done. Python Markdown supports extensions and thus can be “flavoured”.
So, there are extensaions:
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Automatically converting urls to html links
Here’s simple Python snippet for converting urls to links in single text line:
import re
link_re = re.compile('(\s+\(?|^)((http|ftp|https)://[-\w\#$%&~/.;:=,?@+]+)', re.IGNORECASE)
def autolinks(line):
return link_re.sub(r'\1<a href="\2" target="_blank">\2</a>', line)
It’s simple yet smart enough:
- doesn’t touch urls inside html links <a href=”some url”>some text</a>
- can be used with Markdown, as it doesn’t touch Markdown links
To enable auto links replacement in Markdown, you may use autolink extension.
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