markdown2

Markdown is a text-to-HTML interpreter.

This module basically allows Python apps to parse Markdown code and display it as it was intended, with proper text formatting.

This module's main focus is speed.

What is new in this release:

• New "tables" extra for table syntax that matches GFM.

What is new in version 2.2.2:

• Footnotes XML compatibility.
• Horizontal rule minimum length.
• Fixed escaping fenced code block with safe mode.
• Fixed code highlight with safe mode.

What is new in version 2.0.1:

• Unescaped Markdown special chars in TOC entries.
• Now 'tox' testing support.

What is new in version 1.4.0:

• Python 3 support! markdown2.py supports Python 2 and 3 in the same file without requiring install-time 2to3 transformation.

What is new in version 1.3.0:

• New fenced-code-blocks extra. It allows a code block to not have to be indented by fencing it with '```' on a line before and after. Based on GFM.
• It includes support for code syntax highlighting as per GFM. This requires the pygments Python module to be on the pythonpath.

What is new in version 1.0.1.19:

• Added "wiki-tables" extra for Google Code Wiki-style tables.

What is new in version 1.0.1.18:

• Added HTML5 block tags (article, section, aside, et al; see "_html5tags" variable) to Markdown literal HTML block tag handling.
• Fixed `setup.py install`.
• Fixed escaping of link title attributes.