Added markdown parsing for comments so links in comments now appear properly.

Also rewrote part of the HTML rewriting code so it doesn't introduce an additional wrapping element in the output which was added due to a html5lib requirements on input.

python/packages/markdown/extensions/tables.py

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+#!/usr/bin/env python
+"""
+Tables Extension for Python-Markdown
+====================================
+
+Added parsing of tables to Python-Markdown.
+
+A simple example:
+
+    First Header  | Second Header
+    ------------- | -------------
+    Content Cell  | Content Cell
+    Content Cell  | Content Cell
+
+Copyright 2009 - [Waylan Limberg](http://achinghead.com)
+"""
+import markdown
+from markdown.util import etree
+
+
+class TableProcessor(markdown.blockprocessors.BlockProcessor):
+    """ Process Tables. """
+
+    def test(self, parent, block):
+        rows = block.split('\n')
+        return (len(rows) > 2 and '|' in rows[0] and 
+                '|' in rows[1] and '-' in rows[1] and 
+                rows[1].strip()[0] in ['|', ':', '-'])
+
+    def run(self, parent, blocks):
+        """ Parse a table block and build table. """
+        block = blocks.pop(0).split('\n')
+        header = block[0].strip()
+        seperator = block[1].strip()
+        rows = block[2:]
+        # Get format type (bordered by pipes or not)
+        border = False
+        if header.startswith('|'):
+            border = True
+        # Get alignment of columns
+        align = []
+        for c in self._split_row(seperator, border):
+            if c.startswith(':') and c.endswith(':'):
+                align.append('center')
+            elif c.startswith(':'):
+                align.append('left')
+            elif c.endswith(':'):
+                align.append('right')
+            else:
+                align.append(None)
+        # Build table
+        table = etree.SubElement(parent, 'table')
+        thead = etree.SubElement(table, 'thead')
+        self._build_row(header, thead, align, border)
+        tbody = etree.SubElement(table, 'tbody')
+        for row in rows:
+            self._build_row(row.strip(), tbody, align, border)
+
+    def _build_row(self, row, parent, align, border):
+        """ Given a row of text, build table cells. """
+        tr = etree.SubElement(parent, 'tr')
+        tag = 'td'
+        if parent.tag == 'thead':
+            tag = 'th'
+        cells = self._split_row(row, border)
+        # We use align here rather than cells to ensure every row 
+        # contains the same number of columns.
+        for i, a in enumerate(align):
+            c = etree.SubElement(tr, tag)
+            try:
+                c.text = cells[i].strip()
+            except IndexError:
+                c.text = ""
+            if a:
+                c.set('align', a)
+
+    def _split_row(self, row, border):
+        """ split a row of text into list of cells. """
+        if border:
+            if row.startswith('|'):
+                row = row[1:]
+            if row.endswith('|'):
+                row = row[:-1]
+        return row.split('|')
+
+
+class TableExtension(markdown.Extension):
+    """ Add tables to Markdown. """
+
+    def extendMarkdown(self, md, md_globals):
+        """ Add an instance of TableProcessor to BlockParser. """
+        md.parser.blockprocessors.add('table', 
+                                      TableProcessor(md.parser),
+                                      '<hashheader')
+
+
+def makeExtension(configs={}):
+    return TableExtension(configs=configs)