[Django]-A "safe" python HTML text formatting (ala textile)

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If you’re using Django, you could try safe markdown:

{% load markup %}

{{ foo|markdown:"safe" }}

You’ll need to have markdown installed, and django.contrib.markup in your settings.py apps.

If you want to sanitize HTML on save, I’ve had good luck using feedparser’s sanitize (http://www.feedparser.org/). 

import feedparser

body = feedparser._sanitizeHTML(body, 'utf8')
👤Matthew Christensen

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If you are looking for a textile solution: the PyTextile that django markup uses actually has a textile_restricted() function, which for some reason, never made it into django.contrib.markup. You can use this function to provide restricted textile. Either by adding a method to your model that calls textile_restricted, or use a custom template tag textile_restricted, defined by the following code:

from django import template
from django.conf import settings
from django.utils.encoding import smart_str, force_unicode
from django.utils.safestring import mark_safe

register = template.Library()

def textile_restricted(value):
    try:
        import textile
    except ImportError:
        if settings.DEBUG:
            raise template.TemplateSyntaxError("Error in {% textile %} filter: The Python textile library isn't installed.")
        return force_unicode(value)
    else:
        return mark_safe(force_unicode(textile.textile_restricted(smart_str(value))))
textile_restricted.is_safe = True

register.filter(textile_restricted)
👤OverClocked

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Did you try the included django.contrib.markup libraries?

👤Jani Hartikainen

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