Markdown for Python, accelerated by C.

$ pip install cMarkdown

>>> import cMarkdown as markdown
>>> markdown.markdown('# Hello, world!')
'<h1>Hello, world!</h1>\n'

These are keyword arguments to pass to markdown(). They all default to False.

• skip_html=True: Any HTML in the input will be escaped on output.
• skip_style=True: Any <style> elements in the input will be escaped on output.
• skip_images=True: Any <img> elements in the input will be escaped on output.
• skip_links=True: Any <a> elements in the input will be escaped on output.
• smartypants=True: Applies smart punctuation transformations.
• toc=True: Inserts anchors before <h1>, <h2>, et al. for linking in-document from a table of contents.
• hard_wrap=True: Inserts <br/> tags before newlines in paragraphs.

These keyword arguments to markdown(), which default to False, enable various extensions to the Markdown language.

• tables=True: Enables a tabular format that renders to <table> in HTML.
• fenced_code=True: Enables the use of three ``` to delimit the beginning and end of a literal code block.
• autolink=True: Enables the conversion of bare URLs to links in HTML.
• strikethrough=True: Enables the use of two ~~ before and after text to wrap it in the <del> tag in HTML.

Inspired by redcarpet for Ruby. Like with redcarpet, all the hard work is done by the (unfortunately named) upskirt C library. cMarkdown just makes this Markdown parsing and rendering library available to Python.