trentm / trentm/python-markdown2

[shadow] case where parsing of link markdown doesn't get it right

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Description

_This is a _shadow issue* for Issue 40 on Google Code (from which this project was moved).
Added 2010-06-07T19:47:12.000Z by tre...@gmail.com.
Labels: Type-Defect, Priority-Medium.
Please make updates to the bug there.*

Original description

{{{
[Editor Note (June 2010): The above link no longer exists, it redirects to an inappropriate and unrelated site. The link has been updated to the Internet Archive version. See [all archived versions of this URL](http://web.archive.org/web/*/%20http://zxw.nm.ru/test_w_upload.py.htm).]
}}}

The above para isn't parsed properly. Currently get this HTML

{{{
<p>[Editor Note (June 2010): The above link no longer exists, it redirects to an inappropriate and unrelated site. The link has been updated to the Internet Archive version. See [all archived versions of this URL](http://web.archive.org/web/*/%20http://zxw.nm.ru/test<em>w</em>upload.py.htm).]</p>
}}}

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Start by reproducing the original description's nested link case in the Markdown parser, using the example input and current HTML shown in the issue. Done means the URL is preserved as link content without the path being split into an unintended emphasis element; the issue does not name a file or test to run.

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Issue type
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