from ..tl.types import (MessageEntityBold, MessageEntityCode, MessageEntityItalic, MessageEntityTextUrl) def parse_message_entities(msg): """Parses a message and returns the parsed message and the entities (bold, italic...). Note that although markdown-like syntax is used, this does not reflect the complete specification!""" # Store the entities here entities = [] # Convert the message to a mutable list msg = list(msg) # First, let's handle all the text links in the message, so afterwards it's clean # for us to get our hands dirty with the other indicators (bold, italic and fixed) url_indices = [None] * 4 # start/end text index, start/end url index valid_url_indices = [] # all the valid url_indices found for i, c in enumerate(msg): if c is '[': url_indices[0] = i # From now on, also ensure that the last item was set elif c == ']' and url_indices[0]: url_indices[1] = i elif c == '(' and url_indices[1]: # If the previous index (']') is not exactly before the current index ('('), # then it's not a valid text link, so clear the previous state if url_indices[1] != i - 1: url_indices[:2] = [None] * 2 else: url_indices[2] = i elif c == ')' and url_indices[2]: # We have succeeded to find a markdown-like text link! url_indices[3] = i valid_url_indices.append(url_indices[:]) # Append a copy url_indices = [None] * 4 # Iterate in reverse order to clean the text from the urls # (not to affect previous indices) and append MessageEntityTextUrl's for i in range(len(valid_url_indices) - 1, -1, -1): vui = valid_url_indices[i] # Add 1 when slicing the message not to include the [] nor () # There is no need to subtract 1 on the later part because that index is already excluded link_text = ''.join(msg[vui[0] + 1:vui[1]]) link_url = ''.join(msg[vui[2] + 1:vui[3]]) # After we have retrieved both the link text and url, replace them in the message # Now we do have to add 1 to include the [] and () when deleting and replacing! del msg[vui[2]:vui[3] + 1] msg[vui[0]:vui[1] + 1] = link_text # Finally, update the current valid index url to reflect that all the previous VUI's will be removed # This is because, after the previous VUI's get done, their part of the message is removed too, # hence we need to update the current VUI subtracting that removed part length for prev_vui in valid_url_indices[:i]: prev_vui_length = prev_vui[3] - prev_vui[2] - 1 displacement = prev_vui_length + len('[]()') vui[0] -= displacement vui[1] -= displacement # No need to subtract the displacement from the URL part (indices 2 and 3) # When calculating the length, subtract 1 again not to include the previously called ']' entities.append( MessageEntityTextUrl( offset=vui[0], length=vui[1] - vui[0] - 1, url=link_url)) # After the message is clean from links, handle all the indicator flags indicator_flags = {'*': None, '_': None, '`': None} # Iterate over the list to find the indicators of entities for i, c in enumerate(msg): # Only perform further check if the current character is an indicator if c in indicator_flags: # If it is the first time we find this indicator, update its index if indicator_flags[c] is None: indicator_flags[c] = i # Otherwise, it means that we found it before. Hence, the message entity *is* complete else: # Then we have found a new whole valid entity offset = indicator_flags[c] length = i - offset - 1 # Subtract -1 not to include the indicator itself # Add the corresponding entity if c == '*': entities.append( MessageEntityBold( offset=offset, length=length)) elif c == '_': entities.append( MessageEntityItalic( offset=offset, length=length)) elif c == '`': entities.append( MessageEntityCode( offset=offset, length=length)) # Clear the flag to start over with this indicator indicator_flags[c] = None # Sort the entities by their offset first entities = sorted(entities, key=lambda e: e.offset) # Now that all the entities have been found and sorted, remove # their indicators from the message and update the offsets for entity in entities: if type(entity) is not MessageEntityTextUrl: # Clean the message from the current entity's indicators del msg[entity.offset + entity.length + 1] del msg[entity.offset] # Iterate over all the entities but the current for sub_entity in [e for e in entities if e is not entity]: # First case, one in one out: so*me_th_in*g. # In this case, the current entity length is decreased by two, # and all the sub_entities offset decreases 1 if (sub_entity.offset > entity.offset and sub_entity.offset + sub_entity.length < entity.offset + entity.length): entity.length -= 2 sub_entity.offset -= 1 # Second case, both inside: so*me_th*in_g. # In this case, the current entity length is decreased by one, # and all the sub_entities offset and length decrease 1 elif (entity.offset < sub_entity.offset < entity.offset + entity.length < sub_entity.offset + sub_entity.length): entity.length -= 1 sub_entity.offset -= 1 sub_entity.length -= 1 # Third case, both outside: so*me*th_in_g. # In this case, the current entity is left untouched, # and all the sub_entities offset decreases 2 elif sub_entity.offset > entity.offset + entity.length: sub_entity.offset -= 2 # Finally, we can join our poor mutilated message back and return msg = ''.join(msg) return msg, entities