Python : How to convert markdown formatted text to text

Question

I need to convert markdown text to plain text format to display summary in my website. I want the code in python.

Answer 1

This module will help do what you describe:

http://www.freewisdom.org/projects/python-markdown/Using_as_a_Module

Once you have converted the markdown to HTML, you can use a HTML parser to strip out the plain text.

Your code might look something like this:

from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup
from markdown import markdown

html = markdown(some_html_string)
text = ''.join(BeautifulSoup(html).findAll(text=True))