highlight.py

highlight.py

#!/usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

from django import template
from django.utils.safestring import mark_safe
import re

register = template.Library()

@register.filter(name='highlight')
def highlight(text, word):
    insensitive_hippo = re.compile(re.escape(word), re.IGNORECASE)
    return mark_safe(insensitive_hippo.sub("<span class='bold'>%s</span>&nbsp;" % word, text))
    # return mark_safe(text.replace(word, "<span class='bold'>%s</span>" % word))