Markdown and Syntax Highlighting in Django with mixed code

Question

I have some problems with following string while trying to syntax highlight them:

Example

<code class="php"><? echo "<input type=\"text\">"; ?></code>

The php part is rendered correctly, but the html part breaks.

I use the Markdown and Syntax Highlighting snippet from

Any idea how to escape the html part inside the php code correctly ?

If you tell me in what way my solution doesn't work (what output do you get? What output are you expecting? What errors do you get?) I might be able to help you more. Sorry my answer didn't work for you. — Dominic Rodger
– Dominic Rodger, Commented Jan 17, 2010 at 20:07

Dominic Rodger · Accepted Answer · 2010-01-15 10:45:06Z

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Looks like you need to pass your PHP/HTML hybrid code through the escape filter, to convert instances of < to < etc.

Use it like this in a template, assuming you've got your code in a template context variable called mycode:

{{ mycode|escape }}

answered Jan 15, 2010 at 10:37

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thanks for your help, but it does not work... i will ask our local python user group this evening thanks anyway !

stefanB · Accepted Answer · 2010-03-04 05:04:40Z

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Python markdown integrates with Pygments that do the syntax highlighting.

You can go from markdown to html formatted text with source code with highlighted syntax.

The short version is:

import markdown
html = markdown.markdown(text,['codehilite'])

html contains the html formatted text with the source code highlighted. You just need to point to css style, that's it.

In your solution you can just include a reference to css which makes it even easier.

answered Mar 4, 2010 at 5:04

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