A fast and complete implementation of Markdown in Python
Markdown is a light text markup format and a processor to convert that to HTML. The originator describes it as follows:
Markdown is a text-to-HTML conversion tool for web writers. Markdown allows you to write using an easy-to-read, easy-to-write plain text format, then convert it to structurally valid XHTML (or HTML).
This (markdown2) is a fast and complete Python implementation of Markdown. It was written to closely match the behaviour of the original Perl-implemented Markdown.pl. Markdown2 also comes with a number of extensions (called “extras”) for things like syntax coloring, tables, header-ids. See the “Extra Syntax” section below. “markdown2” supports all Python versions 2.6+ or 3.3+ (and pypy and jython, though I don’t frequently test those).
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