Adding first stab at a Markdown/Yaml email template

classy_mail/template.py

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+from django.template import Template, TemplateEncodingError
+from markdown import markdown
+import yaml
+#from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup
+
+
+class MarkdownTemplate(Template):
+    def __init__(self, template_string, origin=None, name=None):
+        split_template = template_string.split("---\n")
+        if len(split_template) == 3:
+            context = yaml.load(split_template[1])
+            if isinstance(context, type({})):
+                template_string = split_template[2]
+                self.frontmatter = context
+        try:
+            template_string = markdown(template_string)
+            super(Template, self).__init__(
+                template_string,
+                origin=origin,
+                name=name
+            )
+        except UnicodeDecodeError:
+            raise TemplateEncodingError("Templates can only be constructed "
+                                        "from unicode or UTF-8 strings.")