how to pass class attribute and value to markdown syntax

Question

Im using python markdown for my django project, when i have the value

#/usr/bin/env python
print "this is converted to html code block"

the output is

<pre><code>    
#/usr/bin/env python
print "this is converted to html code block"
</code><pre>

Now my question is that how can i pass class attribute and value to code elem. Sample:

#i should be using some markdown syntax below
[class="python"]
#/usr/bin/env python
print "this is converted to html code block"

and then the output here

<pre><code class="python">    
#/usr/bin/env python
print "this is converted to html code block"
</code><pre>

is that possible? and how?

Answer 1

You can write HTML in Markdown, but you can't add things like classes and ids.

See this question or this question for more details.

Answer 2

You could pass the resulting HTML through some other filter that finds and parses the #! line and adds the Python class based on it. lxml would be a good way to do it. I'm not sure how you'd go about arranging that with Django though.