def convert_special_chars()

in src/kernels/_vendored/convert_rst_to_mdx.py [0:0]

• 11 lines of code
• 2 McCabe index (conditional complexity)

def convert_special_chars(text):
    """
    Converts { and < that have special meanings in MDX.
    """
    text = text.replace("{", "&amp;lcub;")
    # We don't want to replace those by the HTML code, so we temporarily set them at LTHTML
    text = re.sub(
        r"<(img|br|hr|Youtube)", r"LTHTML\1", text
    )  # html void elements with no closing counterpart
    _re_lt_html = re.compile(r"<(\S+)([^>]*>)(((?!</\1>).)*)<(/\1>)", re.DOTALL)
    while _re_lt_html.search(text):
        text = _re_lt_html.sub(r"LTHTML\1\2\3LTHTML\5", text)
    text = re.sub(r"(^|[^<])<([^<]|$)", r"\1&amp;lt;\2", text)
    text = text.replace("LTHTML", "<")
    return text