Python-Markdown VS MyST-Parser

Compare Python-Markdown vs MyST-Parser and see what are their differences.

Python-Markdown

A Python implementation of John Gruber’s Markdown with Extension support. (by Python-Markdown)

MyST-Parser

An extended commonmark compliant parser, with bridges to docutils/sphinx (by executablebooks)
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Python-Markdown MyST-Parser
15 4
3,550 676
1.9% 1.3%
8.0 7.0
11 days ago 11 days ago
Python Python
BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License MIT License
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Python-Markdown

Posts with mentions or reviews of Python-Markdown. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-30.
  • Introducing AutoPyTabs: Automatically generate code examples for different Python versions in MkDocs or Sphinx based documentations
    5 projects | /r/Python | 30 Apr 2023
    AutoPyTabs allows you to write code examples in your documentation targeting a single version of Python and then generates examples targeting higher Python versions on the fly, presenting them in tabs, using popular tabs extensions. This all comes packaged as a markdown extension, MkDocs plugin and a Sphinx, so it can easily be integrated with your documentation workflow.
  • Creating a Python Wiki application
    2 projects | /r/learnpython | 28 Feb 2023
    As a starting point, take a look at the Python-Markdown library. It's available from the Pypi repository, so is easy to install with pip / pipenv / ...
  • Learning about SSG features with Docusarus
    2 projects | dev.to | 26 Oct 2022
    Issue Markdown Full Markdown Support Complete Markdown Support with the Help of Python-Markdown/markdown I wanted to finally Add full markdown support.
  • Help with understanding & breaking down a library
    2 projects | /r/learnpython | 4 Aug 2022
    I believe a lot of the actual replacements (or at least mappings to replacements) are happening in inlinepatterns.py - you can see on lines 106-172 all of the regex patterns that are used for various matches. Line 442 you can see the Processor that was created to handle Asterisks, working with and .
    2 projects | /r/learnpython | 4 Aug 2022
    python markdown https://python-markdown.github.io/
  • Is it a good practice to use /admin to create manage the blog in production?
    3 projects | /r/django | 19 May 2022
    Interesting, I also use markdown, but hadn't heard of Django-Markdownx before your today. What I do is create two fields: body_md and body_html, and on save use Python Markdown to turn my markdown in html.
  • Spell checking Markdown documents using a Github action
    4 projects | dev.to | 26 Apr 2022
    Now we have to add a configuration file for the spelling checker. It uses PySpelling under the hood. When checking Markdown files, it first converts a Markdown text file's buffer using Python Markdown and returns a single SourceText object containing the text as HTML. Then it captures the HTML content, comments, and even attributes and performs the check. It has a lot of configuration options, but here we are going to see only an example with some basics. For further info you can read the docs of the rojopolis/spellcheck-github-actions Github action.
  • What library/how to write nice documentation of experiments directly from python
    2 projects | /r/learnpython | 13 Dec 2021
    Otherwise, I would use markdown with Python Markdown.
    2 projects | /r/learnpython | 13 Dec 2021
  • How I Refactored my Code
    2 projects | dev.to | 15 Oct 2021
    To resolve the above issue, I thought the best approach was to avoid reinventing the wheel and save myself hours of debugging: use a third-party library. After implementing a Python implementation of John Gruber’s Markdown, 36 lines of code were cut down to a single function call. I've not benchmarked my SSG after the change, but in terms of code readability, it's certainly worth the overhead caused by the library.

MyST-Parser

Posts with mentions or reviews of MyST-Parser. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-02-27.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Python-Markdown and MyST-Parser you can also consider the following projects:

markdown2 - markdown2: A fast and complete implementation of Markdown in Python

Mistune - A fast yet powerful Python Markdown parser with renderers and plugins.

mistletoe - A fast, extensible and spec-compliant Markdown parser in pure Python.

Jinja2 - A very fast and expressive template engine.

pymorphy2 - Morphological analyzer / inflection engine for Russian and Ukrainian languages.

jupyter-book - Create beautiful, publication-quality books and documents from computational content.

sphinxcontrib-mermaid - Mermaid diagrams in yours sphinx powered docs

Kaitai Struct - Kaitai Struct: declarative language to generate binary data parsers in C++ / C# / Go / Java / JavaScript / Lua / Nim / Perl / PHP / Python / Ruby

sphinx-diagrams - Rough Sphinx extension for diagrams

md2notion - A better Notion.so Markdown importer

github-flavored-markdown-to-html - Convert markdown to HTML using the GitHub API and some additional tweaks with Python. Comes with full formula support and image compression.

sphinx-thebe - A Sphinx extension to convert static code into interactive code cells with Jupyter, Thebe, and Binder.