A modified version of formd for use with Pythonista on iOS

formd-pythonista.py

# encoding=utf8
"""
formd by Seth Brown, 02-24-12
modified for iOS use (Pythonista) by Brett Terpstra, 10-17-12
"""
from sys import stdin, stdout
import clipboard
import re
from collections import OrderedDict

class ForMd(object):
    """Format mardown text"""
    def __init__(self, text):
        super(ForMd, self).__init__()
        self.text = text
        self.match_links = re.compile(r'(\[.*?\])\s?(\[.*?\]|\(.*?\))',
                re.DOTALL | re.MULTILINE)
        self.match_refs = re.compile(r'(?<=\n)\[.*?\]:\s?.*')
        self.data = []

    def _links(self, ):
        """find Markdown links"""
        links = re.findall(self.match_links, self.text)
        for link in links:
            # remove newline breaks from urls spanning multi-lines
            parsed_link = [s.replace('\n','') for s in link]
            yield parsed_link

    def _refs(self):
        """find Markdown references"""
        refs = re.findall(self.match_refs, self.text)
        refs.sort()
        refs = OrderedDict(i.split(":", 1) for i in refs)
        return refs

    def _format(self):
        """process text"""
        links = (i for i in self._links())
        refs = self._refs()
        for n, link in enumerate(links):
            text, ref = link
            ref_num = ''.join(("[",str(n+1),"]: "))
            if ref in refs.keys():
                url = refs.get(ref).strip()
                formd_ref = ''.join((ref_num, url))
                formd_text = ''.join((text, ref_num))
                self.data.append([formd_text, formd_ref])
            elif text in refs.keys():
                url = refs.get(text).strip()
                formd_ref = ''.join((ref_num, url))
                formd_text = ''.join((text, ref_num))
                self.data.append([formd_text, formd_ref])
            elif ref not in refs.keys():
                parse_ref = ref.strip("()")
                formd_ref = ''.join((ref_num, parse_ref))
                formd_text = ''.join((text,ref_num))
                self.data.append([formd_text, formd_ref])

    def inline_md(self):
        """generate inline markdown """
        self._format()
        text_link = iter([''.join((_[0].split("][",1)[0],
            "](", _[1].split(":",1)[1].strip(), ")")) for _ in self.data])
        formd_text = self.match_links.sub(lambda _: next(text_link), md)
        formd_md = self.match_refs.sub('', formd_text).strip()
        yield formd_md

    def ref_md(self):
        """generate referenced markdown"""
        self._format()
        ref_nums = iter([_[0].rstrip(" :") for _ in self.data])
        formd_text = self.match_links.sub(lambda _: next(ref_nums), md)
        formd_refs = self.match_refs.sub('', formd_text).strip()
        references = (i[1] for i in self.data)
        formd_md = '\n'.join((formd_refs, '\n', '\n'.join(i for i in references)))
        yield formd_md

    def flip(self):
        """convert markdown to the opposite style of the first text link"""
        first_match = re.search(self.match_links, self.text).group(0)
        if '(' and ')' in first_match:
            formd_md = self.ref_md()
        else:
            formd_md = self.inline_md()
        return formd_md

if __name__ == '__main__':
		description = 'formd: A (for)matting (M)ark(d)own tool.'
		md = clipboard.get()
		if md == '':
			print 'No text in clipboard'
		else:
			text = ForMd(md)
			new_clip = text.flip()
			# clipboard.set(new_clip)
			[clipboard.set(t) for t in new_clip]