From a63e35d04318578da5758f8df747d4dc31ea90de Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Luke Rogers <lukeroge@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2012 08:17:32 +1300
Subject: [PATCH] Added bold, underline and italic/inverted shortcodes to
 plugins/factoids.py

---
 plugins/factoids.py | 24 +++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 23 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/plugins/factoids.py b/plugins/factoids.py
index 740f810..71c9a84 100644
--- a/plugins/factoids.py
+++ b/plugins/factoids.py
@@ -6,6 +6,16 @@ from util import hook
 import re
 
 
+# the dictionary has target_word : replacement_word pairs
+shortcodes = {
+'<b>': '\x02',
+'</b>': '\x02',
+'<u>': '\x1F',
+'</u>': '\x1F',
+'<i>': '\x16',
+'</i>': '\x16'}
+
+
 def db_init(db):
     db.execute("create table if not exists mem(word, data, nick,"
                " primary key(word))")
@@ -20,6 +30,17 @@ def get_memory(db, word):
     else:
         return None
 
+ 
+def multiwordReplace(text, wordDic):
+    """
+    take a text and replace words that match a key in a dictionary with
+    the associated value, return the changed text
+    """
+    rc = re.compile('|'.join(map(re.escape, wordDic)))
+    def translate(match):
+        return wordDic[match.group(0)]
+    return rc.sub(translate, text)
+
 
 @hook.command("r")
 def remember(inp, nick='', db=None, say=None, input=None, notice=None):
@@ -92,4 +113,5 @@ def question(inp, say=None, db=None):
 
     data = get_memory(db, inp.group(1).strip())
     if data:
-        say(data)
+        out = multiwordReplace(data, shortcodes)
+        say(out)