text-to-HTML conversion library/tool (implemented in Python 2)

 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).
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 This is a Python implementation of John Gruber's Markdown. The current
 version of python-markdown implements all Markdown syntax features and
 fully passes Markdown Test Suite 1.0. It also supports footnotes and
 attributes.
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 This package contains all the files needed to use Markdown with Python
 2.x, and the /usr/bin/markdown_py command-line tool.