from markdown import markdown from html import escape import re # these parameters are utter nonsense... COLORS = ["red", "green", "yellow", "blue", "magenta", "cyan"] MARKUP = ["bold", "italic", "underline", "strike"] TOKENS = re.compile(r"\[({}): (.+?)]".format("|".join(COLORS + MARKUP)), flags=re.DOTALL) QUOTES = re.compile(">>([0-9]+)") LINEQUOTES = re.compile("^(>.+)$", flags=re.MULTILINE) def map_html(match): directive, body = match.group(1).lower(), match.group(2) if directive in COLORS: return '{1}'.format(directive, body) elif directive in MARKUP: return '<{0}>{1}'.format(directive[0], body) return body def parse(text, doquotes=True): text = TOKENS.sub(map_html, escape(text)) if doquotes: text = QUOTES.sub(r'\g<0>', text) return markdown( LINEQUOTES.sub(r'\1
', text) )