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@@ -548,23 +548,49 @@ initialized the first time. Keep that in mind when over-riding the extension's
If an extension uses any parameters that the user may want to change,
those parameters should be stored in ``self.config`` of your
-``markdown.Extension`` class in the following format:
+``markdown.extensions.Extension`` class in the following format:
class MyExtension(markdown.extensions.Extension):
- def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
- self.config = {parameter_1_name : [value1, description1],
- parameter_2_name : [value2, description2] }
- super(MyExtension, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)
+ def __init__(self, **kwargs):
+ self.config = {'option1' : ['value1', 'description1'],
+ 'option2' : ['value2', 'description2'] }
+ super(MyExtension, self).__init__(**kwargs)
-When implemented this way the config parameters can be over-ridden from the
-command line or at the time Markdown is initiated:
+When implemented this way the config parameters can be over-ridden at
+run time (thus the call to `super`). For example:
- markdown.py -x myextension(SOME_PARAM=2) inputfile.txt > output.txt
+ markdown.Markdown(extensions=[MyExtension(option1='other value'])
-Note that parameters should always be assumed to be set to string
-values, and should be converted at run time. For example:
+Note that if a keyword is passed in that is not already defined in
+`self.config`, then a `KeyError` is raised.
- i = int(self.getConfig("SOME_PARAM"))
+The `markdown.extensions.Extension` class and its subclasses have the
+following methods available to assist in working with config settings:
+
+* **``getConfig(key [, default])``**:
+
+ Returns the stored value for the given `key` or `default` if the `key`
+ does not exist. If not set, `default` returns an empty string.
+
+* **``getConfigs()``**:
+
+ Returns a dict of all key/value pairs.
+
+* **``getConfigInfo()``**:
+
+ Returns all config descriptions as a list of tuples.
+
+* **``setConfig(key, value)``**:
+
+ Sets a config setting for `key` with the given `value`. If `key` is
+ unknown, a `KeyError` is raised. If the previous value of `key` was
+ a boolean value, then `value` is converted to a boolean value. If
+ the previous value of `key` is `None`, then `value` is converted to
+ a boolean value except when it is `None`. No conversion takes place
+ when the previous value of `key` is a string.
+
+* **``setConfigs(items):
+ Sets multiple config settings given a dict of key/value pairs.
### makeExtension {: #makeextension }
@@ -579,49 +605,45 @@ For example:
myext = myextension.MyExtension(option='value')
md = markdown.Markdown(extensions=[myext])
-This is especially useful if you need to implement a large number of extensions
-with more than one residing in a module.
+Markdown also accepts "named" third party extensions for those occassions
+when it is impractical to import an extension directly (from the command line or from
+within templates).
+
+The "name" of your extension must be a string consisting of the importable path to
+your module using Python's dot notation. Therefore, if you are providing a library
+to your users and would like to include a custom markdown extensions within your
+library, that extension would be named `"mylib.mdext.myext"` where `mylib/mdext/myext.py`
+contains the extension and the `mylib` directory is on the PYTHONPATH.
+
+The string can also include the name of the class seperated by a colon.
+Therefore, if you were to import the class like this:
+
+ from path.to.module import SomeExtensionClass
+
+Then the named extension would comprise this string:
+
+ "path.to.module:SomeExtensionClass"
+
+You do not need to do anything special to support this feature. As long as your extension
+class is able to be imported, a user can include it with the above syntax.
+
+The above two methods are especially useful if you need to implement a large number of
+extensions with more than one residing in a module. However, if you do not want to require
+that your users include the class name in their string, you must define only one extension
+per module and that module must contain a module-level function called `makeExtension`
+that accepts `**kwargs` and returns an extension instance.
-However, for historical reasons, Markdown also accepts "named" third party
-extensions. In that case, only one extension can be defined per module
-and that extension must define a module-level function called
-`makeExtension` that takes `*args` and `**kwargs`. For example:
+For example:
class MyExtension(markdown.extensions.Extension)
# Define extension here...
- def makeExtension(*args, **kwargs):
- return MyExtension(*args, **kwargs)
-
-!!! warning
- Previous versions of Python-Markdown expected a `config` keyword which contained
- a dictionary (or list of tuples) of options. To maintain backward compatability,
- the `config` keyword is given special treatment and you should avoid using "config"
- as an option name. Additionaly, in some past situations, the `config` dict may have
- been passed in as a positional argument. Therefore, it is sugegsted that positional
- arguments be avoided for any othe purpose.
+ def makeExtension(**kwargs):
+ return MyExtension(**kwargs)
-When Markdown is passed the "name" of your extension as a string, it will import
+When Markdown is passed the "name" of your extension as a dot notation string, it will import
the module and call the `makeExtension` function to initiate your extension.
-The "name" of your extension must be a string consisting of the importable path to
-your module using Python's dot notation. Therefore, if you are providing a library
-to your users and would like to include a custom markdown extensions within your
-library, that extension would be named `"mylib.mdext.myext"` where `mylib/mdext/myext.py`
-contains the `makeExtension` function and the `mylib` directory is on the PYTHONPATH.
-
-You may have noted that the extensions packaged with Python-Markdown do not
-use Python's dot notation in their names. This is because they are
-all part of the `markdown.extensions` package. If a "name" contains any dots
-(`.`), then it will be imported as-is. Otherwise, Markdown will first try to
-import from `markdown.extensions.extname` and upon failure, `mdx_extname` where
-`"extname"` is the "name" passed to Markdown.
-
-!!! Note
- While the `mdx_extname` method of naming extensions is still supported, it
- remains solely for historical reasons to support the various existing
- third-party extensions. This method is discouraged going forward and support
- may be removed in a future release.
[Preprocessors]: #preprocessors
[InlinePatterns]: #inlinepatterns