from __future__ import unicode_literals

import markdown

def parse(text):

    # First run through the Markdown parser

    text = markdown.markdown(text, extensions=["extra"], safe_mode=False)

    # Sanitize using html5lib

    # bits = []

    # parser = html5parser.HTMLParser(tokenizer=sanitizer.HTMLSanitizer)

    # for token in parser.parseFragment(text).childNodes:

    #     bits.append(token.toxml())

    # return "".join(bits)

    return text