--- django/contrib/markup/templatetags/markup.py Wed Nov 07 15:03:56 2007
+++ django/contrib/markup/templatetags/markup.py Wed Nov 07 16:09:56 2007
@@ -30,15 +30,46 @@
     else:
         return force_unicode(textile.textile(smart_str(value), encoding='utf-8', output='utf-8'))
 
-def markdown(value):
+def markdown(value, arg=''): 
+    """ 
+    Runs Markdown over a given value, optionally using various 
+    extensions python-markdown supports. 
+    
+    Syntax:: 
+    
+        {{ value|markdown:"extension1_name,extension2_name..." }} 
+    
+    To enable safe mode, which strips raw HTML and only returns HTML 
+    generated by actual Markdown syntax, pass "safe" as the first 
+    extension in the list. 
+    
+    If the version of Markdown in use does not support extensions, 
+    they will be silently ignored. 
+    
+    """ 
     try:
         import markdown
     except ImportError:
         if settings.DEBUG:
-            raise template.TemplateSyntaxError, "Error in {% markdown %} filter: The Python markdown library isn't installed."
-        return force_unicode(value)
+            raise template.TemplateSyntaxError('Error in markdown filter: Markdown could not be imported.') 
+        else: 
+            # Try to salvage this; whatever we do, we shouldn't 
+ 	        # return potentially unsafe HTML. 
+            from django.utils.html import escape, linebreaks 
+ 	        return linebreaks(escape(value)) 
     else:
-        return force_unicode(markdown.markdown(smart_str(value)))
+        # markdown.version was first added in 1.6b. The only version of markdown
+        # to fully support extensions before 1.6b was the shortlived 1.6a.
+        if hasattr(markdown, 'version'):
+            extensions = [e for e in arg.split(",") if e] 
+            if len(extensions) > 0 and extensions[0] == "safe": 
+                extensions = extensions[1:] 
+                safe_mode = True 
+            else: 
+                safe_mode = False 
+            return force_unicode(markdown.markdown(smart_str(value), extensions, safe_mode=safe_mode)) 
+        else:
+            return force_unicode(markdown.markdown(smart_str(value)))
 
 def restructuredtext(value):
     try: