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#!/usr/bin/env python | |
# run like so: | |
# $ python mdprev.py --port=8000 --input=your_markdown_file.md | |
# then open your browser to http://localhost:8000/ | |
# requires tornado and markdown2 https://github.com/trentm/python-markdown2 | |
import os.path | |
import tornado.httpserver | |
import tornado.ioloop | |
import tornado.options | |
import tornado.web | |
import tornado.template | |
from tornado.options import define, options | |
define("port", default=8000, help="run on the given port", type=int) | |
define("input", default="README.md", help="read this markdown file") | |
class MarkdownHandler(tornado.web.RequestHandler): | |
def get(self): | |
import markdown2 | |
md = open(options.input).read() | |
rendered = tornado.template.Template(""" | |
<!doctype html><html><head><meta charset="utf-8"><title>Marked Down</title> | |
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" | |
href="http://yui.yahooapis.com/3.3.0/build/cssbase/base-min.css"> | |
<style type="text/css">#container{width: 760px;} | |
body{font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;} | |
h2{background-color:black;color:white;padding:5px;margin-top:1em;} | |
h3{border:1px black solid;padding: 5px;margin-top: 1em;} | |
</style></head><body><div id="container"><header></header> | |
<div id="main">{{fragment}}</div><footer></footer> | |
</div></body>""", autoescape=None).generate(fragment=markdown2.markdown(md)) | |
self.write(rendered) | |
tornado.options.parse_command_line() | |
http_server = tornado.httpserver.HTTPServer( | |
tornado.web.Application(handlers=[("/",MarkdownHandler)])) | |
http_server.listen(options.port) | |
tornado.ioloop.IOLoop.instance().start() |
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