Python-Markdown VS Mistune

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

Python-Markdown

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

Mistune

A fast yet powerful Python Markdown parser with renderers and plugins. (by lepture)
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Python-Markdown Mistune
15 1
3,550 2,423
1.9% -
8.0 5.3
10 days ago 16 days ago
Python Python
BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" 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.

Mistune

Posts with mentions or reviews of Mistune. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

We haven't tracked posts mentioning Mistune yet.
Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

What are some alternatives?

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

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

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

Jinja2 - A very fast and expressive template engine.

MyST-Parser - An extended commonmark compliant parser, with bridges to docutils/sphinx

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

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

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.