Markdown is a light text markup format and a processor to convert that to HTML. The originator describes it as follows:
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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).
There is another Python markdown.py. However, at least at the time this project was started, markdown2.py was faster (see the Performance Notes) and, to my knowledge, more correct (see Testing Notes). That was a while ago though, so you shouldn't discount Python-markdown from your consideration.
Follow @trentmick for updates to python-markdown2.
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