Python-Markdown
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***WARNING:*** This is **alpha** software. This is the development repo for the upcoming version 3.0. 
For a stable version of Python-Markdown see the 2.x repo at [waylan/Python-Markdown].
If you are interested in what changes to expect in 3.0 you may want to checkout the [roadmap].
If you would like to help, pull requests are welcome. If you would like to discuss future features
and/or changes, start a discussion on the [mailing list].

[waylan/Python-Markdown]: https://github.com/waylan/Python-Markdown
[roadmap]: https://github.com/waylan/Python-Markdown/issues/391

This is a Python implementation of John Gruber's [Markdown][]. 
It is almost completely compliant with the reference implementation,
though there are a few known issues. See [Features][] for information 
on what exactly is supported and what is not. Additional features are 
supported by the [Available Extensions][].

[Markdown]: http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/
[Features]: https://pythonhosted.org/Markdown/index/#Features
[Available Extensions]: https://pythonhosted.org/Markdown/extensions/


Documentation
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Installation and usage documentation is available in the `docs/` directory
of the distribution and on the project website at 
<https://pythonhosted.org/Markdown/>.

Support
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You may ask for help and discuss various other issues on the [mailing list][] and report bugs on the [bug tracker][].

[mailing list]: http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/python-markdown-discuss
[bug tracker]: http://github.com/Python-Markdown/markdown/issues