from re import sub
from django import template
from django.template.defaultfilters import stringfilter

register = template.Library()

@stringfilter
@register.filter
def force_br(value):
    """
    For Flash, replace all <p> tags with <br />
    and strip newlines
    """
    
    if not value:
        return value
    
    value = sub('<p[^>]*>', '', value)
    value = sub('<\/p>', '<br />', value)
    value = sub("\n", "", value)
    
    return value