Pattern.compiled_re

> I suppose one thing to do would be to somehow "annotate" nodes to
> specify that they should not have their children processed.  Artem,
> what would you suggest?  Then, <a> nodes created with [...]() would
> get their children processed, but those created with autolinks (<...>)
> will be marked as done.

Okay, I promise to get on the mail list, but this was such an obvious
and elegant solution that I couldn't wait for the subscription to
finish.

Any objections to me starting a branch and pushing this to your
gitorious project?

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1 files changed, 13 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/markdown.py b/markdown.py
index 40cfc61..a38c6ba 100755
--- a/markdown.py
+++ b/markdown.py
@@ -210,6 +210,11 @@ def handleAttributes(text, parent):
     return RE.regExp['attr'].sub(attributeCallback, text)
     
 
+class AtomicString(str):
+    "A string which should not be further processed."
+    pass
+
+
 """
 ======================================================================
 ========================== PRE-PROCESSORS ============================
@@ -776,7 +781,7 @@ class AutolinkPattern (Pattern):
     def handleMatch(self, m):
         el = etree.Element("a")
         el.set('href', m.group(2))
-        el.text = m.group(2)
+        el.text = AtomicString(m.group(2))
         return el
 
 class AutomailPattern (Pattern):
@@ -789,9 +794,9 @@ class AutomailPattern (Pattern):
         email = m.group(2)
         if email.startswith("mailto:"):
             email = email[len("mailto:"):]
-        el.text = ""
-        for letter in email:
-            el.text += codepoint2name(ord(letter))
+
+        letters = [codepoint2name(ord(letter)) for letter in email]
+        el.text = AtomicString(''.join(letters))
 
         mailto = "mailto:" + email
         mailto = "".join([AMP_SUBSTITUTE + '#%d;' % 
@@ -1661,6 +1666,10 @@ class Markdown:
         Returns: String with placeholders. 
         
         """
+
+        if isinstance(data, AtomicString):
+            return data
+
         startIndex = 0
         
         while patternIndex < len(self.inlinePatterns):