Revisiting Pygments and Markdown
A variation on a theme, inspired by [snippet 39][39] and [snippet 119][119]. The intent is to provide a more generic and simple mechanism for combining [Markdown][markdown] with [Pygments][pygments]. Common scenarios could include blogging or commenting. Snippet 119 seemed too specific and perhaps not as efficient, needing to process the HTML twice to accomplish it's ends. The one snag in the implementation is the need to use a tag other than `code` as a wrapper. See the comments for details. You will need the [BeautifulSoup][soup] module installed. Sample usage: from django.db import models class Blog(models.Model): '''Bare bones blogging model''' title = models.CharField(maxlength=255) slug = models.SlugField(maxlength=255, prepopulate_from=('title',)) pub_date = models.DateTimeField() # the cooked view, cached for quick retrieval blog = models.TextField() # the raw markdown-encoded text, saved for subsequent edits markdown = models.TextField() def save(self): from datetime import datetime if not self.id and not self.pub_date: self.pub_date = datetime.now() self.blog = pygmented_markdown(self.markdown) super(Blog, self).save() [39]: http://www.djangosnippets.org/snippets/39/ [119]: http://www.djangosnippets.org/snippets/119/ [soup]: http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/ [markdown]: http://www.freewisdom.org/projects/python-markdown/Installation [pygments]: http://pygments.org/
- pygments
- beautifulsoup
- markdown