Merge branch 'develop'

closes #59

README.rst

@@ -32,14 +32,14 @@ Convert some HTML to Markdown:
     from markdownify import markdownify as md
     md('<b>Yay</b> <a href="http://github.com">GitHub</a>')  # > '**Yay** [GitHub](http://github.com)'
 
-Specify tags to exclude (blacklist):
+Specify tags to exclude:
 
 .. code:: python
 
     from markdownify import markdownify as md
     md('<b>Yay</b> <a href="http://github.com">GitHub</a>', strip=['a'])  # > '**Yay** GitHub'
 
-\...or specify the tags you want to include (whitelist):
+\...or specify the tags you want to include:
 
 .. code:: python
 
@@ -53,11 +53,11 @@ Options
 Markdownify supports the following options:
 
 strip
-  A list of tags to strip (blacklist). This option can't be used with the
+  A list of tags to strip. This option can't be used with the
   ``convert`` option.
 
 convert
-  A list of tags to convert (whitelist). This option can't be used with the
+  A list of tags to convert. This option can't be used with the
   ``strip`` option.
 
 autolinks
@@ -102,10 +102,26 @@ code_language
   should be annotated with `````python`` or similar.
   Defaults to ``''`` (empty string) and can be any string.
 
+escape_underscores
+  If set to ``False``, do not escape ``_`` to ``\_`` in text.
+  Defaults to ``True``.
+
 Options may be specified as kwargs to the ``markdownify`` function, or as a
 nested ``Options`` class in ``MarkdownConverter`` subclasses.
 
 
+Converting BeautifulSoup objects
+================================
+
+.. code:: python
+
+    from markdownify import MarkdownConverter
+
+    # Create shorthand method for conversion
+    def md(soup, **options):
+        return ImageBlockConverter(**options).convert_soup(soup)
+
+
 Creating Custom Converters
 ==========================
 

markdownify/__init__.py

@@ -25,10 +25,12 @@ ASTERISK = '*'
 UNDERSCORE = '_'
 
 
-def escape(text):
+def escape(text, escape_underscores):
     if not text:
         return ''
-    return text.replace('_', r'\_')
+    if escape_underscores:
+        return text.replace('_', r'\_')
+    return text
 
 
 def chomp(text):
@@ -68,15 +70,16 @@ class MarkdownConverter(object):
     class DefaultOptions:
         autolinks = True
         bullets = '*+-'  # An iterable of bullet types.
+        code_language = ''
         convert = None
         default_title = False
+        escape_underscores = True
         heading_style = UNDERLINED
         newline_style = SPACES
         strip = None
         strong_em_symbol = ASTERISK
         sub_symbol = ''
         sup_symbol = ''
-        code_language = ''
 
     class Options(DefaultOptions):
         pass
@@ -93,6 +96,9 @@ class MarkdownConverter(object):
 
     def convert(self, html):
         soup = BeautifulSoup(html, 'html.parser')
+        return self.convert_soup(soup)
+
+    def convert_soup(self, soup):
         return self.process_tag(soup, convert_as_inline=False, children_only=True)
 
     def process_tag(self, node, convert_as_inline, children_only=False):
@@ -155,7 +161,7 @@ class MarkdownConverter(object):
             text = whitespace_re.sub(' ', text)
 
         if el.parent.name != 'code':
-            text = escape(text)
+            text = escape(text, self.options['escape_underscores'])
 
         # remove trailing whitespaces if any of the following condition is true:
         # - current text node is the last node in li

setup.py

@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ read = lambda filepath: codecs.open(filepath, 'r', 'utf-8').read()
 pkgmeta = {
     '__title__': 'markdownify',
     '__author__': 'Matthew Tretter',
-    '__version__': '0.10.1',
+    '__version__': '0.10.3',
 }
 
 

tests/test_custom_converter.py

@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 from markdownify import MarkdownConverter
+from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
 
 
 class ImageBlockConverter(MarkdownConverter):
@@ -16,3 +17,9 @@ def test_img():
 
     assert md('<img src="/path/to/img.jpg" alt="Alt text" title="Optional title" />') == '![Alt text](/path/to/img.jpg "Optional title")\n\n'
     assert md('<img src="/path/to/img.jpg" alt="Alt text" />') == '![Alt text](/path/to/img.jpg)\n\n'
+
+
+def test_soup():
+    html = '<b>test</b>'
+    soup = BeautifulSoup(html, 'html.parser')
+    assert MarkdownConverter().convert_soup(soup) == '**test**'

tests/test_escaping.py

@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ from markdownify import markdownify as md
 
 def test_underscore():
     assert md('_hey_dude_') == r'\_hey\_dude\_'
+    assert md('_hey_dude_', escape_underscores=False) == r'_hey_dude_'
 
 
 def test_xml_entities():