From 667260e3242650e74db7847d3152fab8a7461f2e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: pR0Ps <pR0Ps.CM@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2014 23:37:35 -0500
Subject: [PATCH 1/5] Force unicode for all strings

---
 meta_yaml.py | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/meta_yaml.py b/meta_yaml.py
index 2a6e3f9..27909ad 100644
--- a/meta_yaml.py
+++ b/meta_yaml.py
@@ -58,6 +58,10 @@ try:
 except ImportError:
     from yaml import Loader
 
+# Override the default string handling function to always return unicode objects
+def construct_yaml_str(self, node):
+    return self.construct_scalar(node)
+Loader.add_constructor(u'tag:yaml.org,2002:str', construct_yaml_str)
 
 class MetaYamlExtension (Extension):
 

From 201a20e1c3cf6f89cb7d38fbb2a7da3f81923091 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: pR0Ps <pR0Ps.CM@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2014 23:56:13 -0500
Subject: [PATCH 2/5] Add gitignore

---
 .gitignore | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 .gitignore

diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..43ae0e2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+__pycache__/
+*.py[cod]

From e7db190fca71762df459f353c6d6e8f9ed667aac Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: pR0Ps <pR0Ps.CM@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 26 Dec 2014 13:49:51 -0500
Subject: [PATCH 3/5] No need to use regexp to compare equality

---
 meta_yaml.py | 5 ++---
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/meta_yaml.py b/meta_yaml.py
index 27909ad..d1dfde7 100644
--- a/meta_yaml.py
+++ b/meta_yaml.py
@@ -51,7 +51,6 @@ from __future__ import absolute_import
 from __future__ import unicode_literals
 from markdown import Extension
 from markdown.preprocessors import Preprocessor
-import re
 import yaml
 try:
     from yaml import CSafeLoader as Loader
@@ -87,10 +86,10 @@ class MetaYamlPreprocessor(Preprocessor):
         """ Parse Meta-Data and store in Markdown.Meta. """
         yaml_block = []
         line = lines.pop(0)
-        if re.match(r'-{3}', line):
+        if line == "---":
             while lines:
                 line = lines.pop(0)
-                if re.match(r'(\.{3}|-{3})', line):
+                if line in ("---", "..."):
                     break
                 yaml_block.append(line)
         else:

From 7a7e135f2bb97f7cd15019a2ce401a50d9cdc78d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: pR0Ps <pR0Ps.CM@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 26 Dec 2014 13:57:53 -0500
Subject: [PATCH 4/5] Slight optimization

---
 meta_yaml.py | 12 ++++--------
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/meta_yaml.py b/meta_yaml.py
index d1dfde7..2fb536f 100644
--- a/meta_yaml.py
+++ b/meta_yaml.py
@@ -96,14 +96,10 @@ class MetaYamlPreprocessor(Preprocessor):
             lines.insert(0, line)
         if yaml_block:
             meta = yaml.load("\n".join(yaml_block), Loader)
-            # case-insensitize meta data keys:
-            meta = {
-                k.lower(): meta[k] for k in meta
-            }
-            # PyMarkdown's Meta compat: ensure everything's a list
-            meta = {
-                k: v if isinstance(v, list) else [v] for k, v in meta.items()
-            }
+
+            # Compat with PyMarkdown's meta: Keys are lowercase, values are lists
+            meta = {k.lower(): v if isinstance(v, list) else [v] for k, v in meta.items()}
+
             self.markdown.Meta = meta
         return lines
 

From 27433419bdc7311f2d34c7316207603a02f03f52 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: pR0Ps <pR0Ps.CM@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 26 Dec 2014 13:58:45 -0500
Subject: [PATCH 5/5] Formatting cleanup

---
 meta_yaml.py | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/meta_yaml.py b/meta_yaml.py
index 2fb536f..b75fe7b 100644
--- a/meta_yaml.py
+++ b/meta_yaml.py
@@ -57,13 +57,14 @@ try:
 except ImportError:
     from yaml import Loader
 
+
 # Override the default string handling function to always return unicode objects
 def construct_yaml_str(self, node):
     return self.construct_scalar(node)
 Loader.add_constructor(u'tag:yaml.org,2002:str', construct_yaml_str)
 
-class MetaYamlExtension (Extension):
 
+class MetaYamlExtension (Extension):
     """Extension for parsing YAML-Metadata with Python-Markdown."""
 
     def extendMarkdown(self, md, md_globals):
@@ -72,7 +73,6 @@ class MetaYamlExtension (Extension):
 
 
 class MetaYamlPreprocessor(Preprocessor):
-
     """
     Get Meta-Data.