Troubleshooting error when using markdown filter in Django template

Question

When using the Markdown libraries I seem to get the following error:

Error in \'markdown\' filter: Django does not support versions of the Python markdo

Answer 1

one idea is to install markdown2 library of python see here then you create your decorator

import markdown2
.. all other imports needed..

register = template.Library()

@register.filter(is_safe=True)
@stringfilter
def markdown2(value):
    return mark_safe(markdown2.markdown(force_unicode(value),safe_mode=True,enable_attributes=False))

then you use it

{% load myapp_markup %}
{{ value|markdown2 }}

code is adpated (and not tested) from here

Answer 2

Just an update:

My decorator looks like this:

import markdown2
from django import template
from django.template.defaultfilters import stringfilter
from django.utils.encoding import force_unicode
from django.utils.safestring import mark_safe

register = template.Library()

@register.filter(is_safe=True)
@stringfilter
def convertTxt(value):
    return mark_safe(markdown2.markdown(force_unicode(value)))

register.filter('convertTxt', convertTxt)

Also, I've noticed that it is not prudent to name your module or your method markdown2 :)