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" <obe...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 2:46 AM, ian douglas <ian.doug...@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 < and > 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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