Python : How to convert markdown formatted text to text

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

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The Markdown and BeautifulSoup (now called beautifulsoup4) modules will help do what you describe.

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 bs4 import BeautifulSoup
from markdown import markdown

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

Accepted Answer

The Markdown and BeautifulSoup (now called beautifulsoup4) modules will help do what you describe.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 bs4 import BeautifulSoupfrom markdown import markdownhtml = markdown(some_html_string)text = ''.join(BeautifulSoup(html).findAll(text=True))

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