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python-markdown-library

Description

pmd_lib is a library to easily generate markdown documents using code.

Usage examples

headlines

from pmd_lib import Document
from pmd_lib.elements.common import *

d = Document()
d += Headline('This is a level 1 headline')
d += Headline('This is also a level 1 headline', level=1)
d += Headline('This is a level 2 headline', level=2)
d += Headline('This is a level 3 headline', level=3)
d += Headline('This is a level 4 headline', level=4)
d += Headline('This is a level 5 headline', level=5)
d += Headline('This is a level 6 headline', level=6)

paragraphs

There are three ways to make paragraphs.

from pmd_lib import Document
from pmd_lib.elements.common import *

d = Document()

# adding the paragraph directly to the document.
d += Text('This is a text for the first paragraph.'
          ' It even has multiple sentences that will be split into multiple lines.')
d += Text('With this method I can add more text to a paragraph.')
d += Paragraph()
d += Text('This is a text for the second paragraph.'
          ' It even has multiple sentences that will be split into multiple lines.')
d += Paragraph()

# treating a paragraph as an object and adding the entire paragraph to the document.
p1 = Paragraph()
p1 += Text('This is a text for the first paragraph.'
           ' It even has multiple sentences that will be split into multiple lines.')
p1 += Text('With this method I can also add more text to a paragraph.')
p2 = Paragraph()
p2 += Text('This is a text for the second paragraph.'
           ' It even has multiple sentences that will be split into multiple lines.')

d += p1
d += p2

d += Paragraph(['This is the third option to create paragraphs',
                'you can simply provide text, or other markdown elements like: ',
                Bold('Bold, '),
                Code('and code.')])
print(d.compile())

bold, italics, strikethrough

Bold, Italics, and Strikethrough can be nested, combined and used in line together with strings.

from pmd_lib import Document
from pmd_lib.elements.common import *

d = Document()
d += Paragraph([Bold('This is a bold sentence.'),
                Italics('But this also works with italics.'),
                Bold(Italics('We can even combine the two.')),
                Italics(Bold('And it is not important in which order.')),
                Strikethrough('If we want we can also create strikethrough text.'),
                Strikethrough(Bold('Surprise, you can make it bold.')),
                Strikethrough(Italics('Or you can make it italic.')),
                Strikethrough(Italics(Bold('This also works in all combinations.'))),
                Italics(Bold(Strikethrough('See, this is exactly the same.'))),
                Strikethrough(Code('You can even combine it with inline code.')),
                ])
print(d.compile())

blockquote

from pmd_lib import Document
from pmd_lib.elements.common import *

d = Document()
d += Blockquote("This is a blockquote.\nIt has multiple lines.")

d += Blockquote("This is a blockquote.\nIt has multiple lines."
                + Blockquote('It even has a nested quote.'
                             + Code('this is a piece of code')))
print(d.compile())

lists

from pmd_lib import Document
from pmd_lib.elements.common import *

d = Document()
# Add an unordered list
d += MarkdownList(["Item 1", "Item 2", "Item 3"])

# Add an ordered list
d += MarkdownList(["Item 1", "Item 2", "Item 3"], ordered=True)

# Add a task list
d += MarkdownList([("Task 1", False),
                   ("Task 2", True),
                   'Task 3'],
                  task=True)
print(d.compile())

Code

Inline code is extremely simple by using the Code(content=str) class. For Block-code there are three ways to create it. You can either provide the entire string, or build it line by line.

from pmd_lib import Document
from pmd_lib.elements.common import *

d = Document()
# option 1
d += CodeBlock("def hello_world():\n    print('Hello, world!')")
# option 2
d += CodeBlock(["def hello_world():",
                "    print('Hello, world!')"])
# option 3
cb = CodeBlock()
cb += "def hello_world():"
cb += "    print('Hello, world!')"
d += cb
print(d.compile())

links and images

There are two ways of creating images and links. Directly and via references.

from pmd_lib import Document
from pmd_lib.elements.common import *

d = Document()
# For inline links
d += Link('link text', 'https://google.com')

# For reference-style links
d += Link('link text', reference='link_ref')

# For inline images
d += Image('Image', 'placeholder.png')

# For reference-style images
d += Image('Image', reference='Image_ref')

# At the bottom of the document, you'd define the image reference like this:
d += Reference('link_ref', 'https://google.com')
d += Reference('Image_ref', 'placeholder.png')
print(d.compile())

For reference style there is also a ReferenceManager that makes everything easier.

from pmd_lib import Document
from pmd_lib.elements.common import *

d = Document()
reference_manager = ReferenceManager()

d += reference_manager.new_link('link text', 'https://google.com', inline=False)
d += reference_manager.new_image('image description', 'placeholder.png')

d += reference_manager
print(d.compile())

tables

from pmd_lib import Document
from pmd_lib.elements.common import *

d = Document()
d += Table(header=[Strikethrough('one'), 'two', 'three'],
           alignment=['<', '^', '>'],
           rows=[[1, 2, 3], [2, 3, 4]])
print(d.compile())

You can also progressively build tables.

from pmd_lib import Document
from pmd_lib.elements.common import *

d = Document()
t = Table(header=[Strikethrough('one'), 'two', 'three'],
          alignment=['<', '^', '>'],
          rows=[[1, 2, 3], [2, 3, 4]])
t += [9, 9, 9]
d += t
print(d.compile())

Contributing