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