Fixed Ticket 66. We have dropped official support for Python 3.0 and now only officially support Python 3.1+ in the Python 3 series (we still support 2.4, 2.5 & 2.6 in the Python 2 series). If you really must use Python 3.0, we suggest using Python 3.1's 2to3 tool. See comment in source and Ticket 66 for more.

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/markdown/inlinepatterns.py b/markdown/inlinepatterns.py
index e4a9dd7..b5bd02b 100644
--- a/markdown/inlinepatterns.py
+++ b/markdown/inlinepatterns.py
@@ -46,10 +46,13 @@ import odict
 import re
 from urlparse import urlparse, urlunparse
 import sys
-if sys.version >= "3.0":
-    from html import entities as htmlentitydefs
-else:
-    import htmlentitydefs
+# If you see an ImportError for htmlentitydefs after using 2to3 to convert for 
+# use by Python3, then you are probably using the buggy version from Python 3.0.
+# We recomend using the tool from Python 3.1 even if you will be running the 
+# code on Python 3.0.  The following line should be converted by the tool to:
+# `from html import entities` and later calls to `htmlentitydefs` should be
+# changed to call `entities`. Python 3.1's tool does this but 3.0's does not.
+import htmlentitydefs
 
 
 def build_inlinepatterns(md_instance, **kwargs):