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+from creoleparser import text2html
+
+"""
+text can be creole-encoded, see http://www.wikicreole.org/imageServlet?page=CheatSheet%2Fcreole_cheat_sheet.png&width=340
+"""
+
+def creole2html(text):
+    # creoleparser returns an utf-8 encoded string by default, but this would cause "Markup" below to fail during decoding.
+    # The parameter "None" for "encoding" forces unicode output. This works with "Markup".
+    # Replace single backslashes with double ones (new line for creole), since python
+    # interprets a double backslash as the escape sequenze of a single backslash.
+    text = text.replace("\\", "\\\\")
+    return text2html(text, encoding=None)
+