trentm/python-markdown2

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2821 stars · 454 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

markdown2 is a fast and complete Python implementation of Markdown that converts Markdown text to HTML, closely matching the original Perl Markdown.pl behavior. It works as an importable module or a command-line script and supports optional 'extras' like syntax coloring, tables, and header IDs.

Use cases

• convert markdown files to html
• render user-submitted markdown in a python web app
• parse markdown text into html from python
• convert readme.md to html from the command line
• markdown with tables and syntax highlighting
• fast markdown processing in python

When to choose

• you need a fast, single-file Markdown-to-HTML converter in Python
• you want behavior closely matching the original Markdown.pl
• you need optional extensions like tables, fenced code, or syntax highlighting
• you want both a library API and a CLI in one package

When to avoid

• you prefer the more widely maintained python-markdown package with its large extension ecosystem
• you need CommonMark/GFM strict spec compliance
• you need a Markdown parser in a non-Python language

Facets

library · maturity stable

parser markdown cli web-development text-editors developer-tools python cli cross-platform markdown-to-html text-markup single-file-library

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