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)