From: Yaroslav Halchenko <debian@onerussian.com>
Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2011 21:07:17 +0000 (-0500)
Subject: ENH: sanitize long descriptions prior embedding into the .rst
X-Git-Url: https://git.donarmstrong.com/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=4ef63b3664d0d5a33e8b396a481b635cd80d1d8d;p=neurodebian.git

ENH: sanitize long descriptions prior embedding into the .rst
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diff --git a/neurodebian/dde.py b/neurodebian/dde.py
index ab223ab..86aafcd 100755
--- a/neurodebian/dde.py
+++ b/neurodebian/dde.py
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ import urllib
 import codecs
 import subprocess
 import time
+import re
 # templating
 from jinja2 import Environment, PackageLoader
 
@@ -584,6 +585,8 @@ def convert_longdescr(ld):
     ld = ld.replace('#NEWLINEMARKER# ', '\n\n')
     # cleanup any leftover (e.g. trailing markers)
     ld = ld.replace('#NEWLINEMARKER#', '')
+    # safe-guard ReST active symbols
+    ld = re.sub(r'([\'`*])', r'\\\1', ld)
     return ld