Introduction
Markdown prioritizes web security by converting potentially risky characters into safe entities. This process ensures that special symbols, like "<", are displayed literally on web pages without accidentally triggering HTML code.
Table of contents
Here is an example of content
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 | content = """<!DOCTYPE html> <html> <body> Here is some <strong>content</strong> displayed after applying markdown! </body> </html> """ |
Our objective is to convert this content back into HTML.
Using html python module
For achieving that, a simple solution is to utilize the html Python module, which converts HTML entities back to their corresponding characters. How it works:
- takes a string containing HTML entities as input.
- identifies entities within the string (e.g., < for "<", & for "&").
- replaces them with their corresponding characters according to HTML standards.
- returns the unescaped string containing the original characters.
Then if we do:
1 | print( html.unescape(content) ) |
The output will be:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 | <!DOCTYPE html> <html> <body> Here is some <strong>content</strong> displayed after applying markdown! </body> </html> |
References
| Links | Site |
|---|---|
| html | docs.python.org |
| Python convert markdown to html fix | stackoverflow |
| Using Markdown as a Python Library | python-markdown.github.io |
