Simple textile like web text generator done in Python

Introduction

• AmiFormat is small. 600 lines of code vs. 1700 for MarkDown and 2800 for PyTextile.
• AmiFormat is very simple and pretty fast.
• Links, headings, code, lists, text style, images, paragraphs and line breaks are supported. The syntax looks a lot like Textile.
• Support for plugins
• AmiFormat is built to be mixed up with (X)HTML. With both MarkDown and Textile I personally encountered various bugs with (X)HTML.

AmiFormat syntax reference

Check out the online reference.

Example of use

This code:

from amiformat import amiformat

def commentHandler(args):
    if args.has_key('color'):
        return True, '<div style="color: %(color)s">%(data)s</div>'  % args

parser = amiformat.AmiFormat()
parser.registerMLPlugin('comment', commentHandler)
text = """
h2. Test
Here is a red comment:
[comment, color=red]
I am red
[/comment]"""
print parser.htmlFormat(text)

Outputs:

<h2>Just a test</h2>

<p>
Here is a red comment:
</p>
<div style="color: red">I am red</div>

Download

• Download latest version of AmiFormat

Change log

• Version 2.2 - 29. April 2007
  - Added [quote]...[/quote] (which inserts blockquote)

• Version 2.1 - 2. February 2007
  - Added support for http:// links
  - Small bug fixes (here and there, look in test_amiformat.py for the concrete bugs)

• Version 2.0 - 23. December 2006
  - Rewritten everything from scratch, much cleaner and faster code
  - Added a plugin system
  - Added extra unit-tests

• Version 1.5 - 14. August 2006
  - Bug fixes, but I haven't kept track on them.
  - Added [escape]...

• Version 1.2 - 21. June 2006
  - Bug fixes, but I haven't kept track on them.

• Version 1.1 - 22. May 2006
  - Support for %(b) %(i) Hello%% etc. added

• Version 1.0 - 1. May 2006
  - Initial release