[Tutor] Having a problem with markdown

[Benjamin Kircher]

On Jan 26, 2011, at 4:11 PM, ian douglas wrote:

> Thanks Tino,
> 
> It's certainly not homework, I'm learning Python after being in the Perl/PHP world for well over a decade. Trying to teach this old dog some new tricks.
> 
> On Jan 26, 2011 6:47 AM, "Tino Dai" <oberoc at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 2:46 AM, ian douglas <ian.douglas at iandouglas.com>wrote:
> > 
> >> Hey all,
> >>
> >> I followed a tutorial on creating a very simple wiki in Python, which
> >> worked fine until the example where the instructor wanted to render the
> >> output through markdown.markdown()
> >>
> >> Here's the view code:
> >>
> >> from agwiki.wiki.models import Page
> >> from django.shortcuts import render_to_response
> >> from django.http import HttpResponseRedirect
> >> import markdown
> >>
> >> def view_page(request, page_name):
> >> try:
> >> page = Page.objects.get(pk=page_name)
> >> except Page.DoesNotExist:
> >> return render_to_response("create.html", {"page_name":page_name})
> >> content = page.content
> >> return
> >> render_to_response("view.html",{"page_name":page_name,"content":markdown.markdown(content)})
> >>
> >> The problem I'm having is that the output in a browser is outputing HTML
> >> markers as &lt; and &gt; instead of < and > so the browser literally shows
> >> "<p>hello world</p>". If I leave the line as it originally was:
> >>
> >> return
> >> render_to_response("view.html",{"page_name":page_name,"content":content})
> >>
> >> It just prints "hello world" as saved in the database. I'm just not sure
> >> where to start looking for a solution here, and would appreciate any
> >> pointers.
> >>
> >>
> >> Two thing:
> > - This sounds like homework.
> > - This is a python mailing list, not a django mailing list
> > 
> > Where I would start would be to investigate what the markdown class does. In
> > addition I would read over the django documentation to see why django is
> > doing that. It's in the django documentation, I hit that issue not too long
> > ago.
> > 
> > HTH,
> > Tino
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Hi Ian.

Well, I did that very same tutorial a few months ago and ran into the same issue. It's not an issue with markdown but a feature called auto-escaping. The tutorial is quite old (but nonetheless good), so back in that day auto-escaping wasn't the default in Django. Now it is.

However, you might want consult the Django docs about auto-escaping
http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.2/ref/templates/builtins/#autoescape

;)

--
Benjamin