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• How I load Markdown in Python
  2 projects | dev.to | 23 Mar 2022

  ❯ inspect(frontmatter.load("pages/til/python-frontmatter.md")) ╭────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╮ │ A post contains content and metadata from Front Matter. This is what gets │ │ returned by :py:func:`load ` and :py:func:`loads `. │ │ Passing this to :py:func:`dump ` or :py:func:`dumps ` │ │ will turn it back into text. │ │ │ │ ╭─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╮ │ │ │ │ │ │ ╰─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯ │ │ │ │ content = "I use a package\n[eyeseast/python-frontmatter](https://github.com/eyeseast/python-frontmatter)\nto load files with frontmatter in │ │ them. Its a handy package that allows you to\nload files with structured frontmatter (yaml, json, or toml).\n\n## Install\n\nIt's │ │ on pypi, so you can install it into your virtual environment with pip.\n\n``` {% endraw %} bash\npython -m pip install │ │ python-frontmatter\n {% raw %} ```\n\n## 🙋 What's Frontmatter\n\nFrontmatter is a handy way to add metadata to your plain text files. │ │ It's\nquite common to have yaml frontmatter in markdown. All of my blog posts have\nyaml frontmatter to give the post metadata such │ │ as post date, tags, title, and\ntemplate. dev.to is a popular developer blogging platform that also builds all\nof its posts with │ │ markdown and yaml frontmatter.\n\n## Let's see an example\n\nHere is the exact frontmatter for this post you are reading on my │ │ site.\n\n``` {% endraw %} markdown\n---\ndate: 2022-03-24 03:18:48.631729\ntemplateKey: til\ntitle: How I load Markdown in Python\ntags:\n - │ │ linux\n - python\n\n---\n\nThis is where the markdown content for the post goes.\n {% raw %} ```\n\n## So it's yaml\n\nyaml is the most │ │ commmon, but\n[eyeseast/python-frontmatter](https://github.com/eyeseast/python-frontmatter)\nalso │ │ supports\n[Handlers](https://python-frontmatter.readthedocs.io/en/latest/handlers.html?highlight=toml#module-frontmatter.default_ha… │ │ toml and json.\n\nIf you want a good set of examples of yaml\n[learnxinyminutes](https://learnxinyminutes.com/docs/yaml/) has a │ │ fantastic set\nof examples in one page.\n\n## How to load yaml frontmatter in python" │ │ handler = │ │ metadata = { │ │ 'date': datetime.datetime(2022, 3, 24, 3, 18, 48, 631729), │ │ 'templateKey': 'til', │ │ 'title': 'How I load Markdown in Python', │ │ 'tags': ['linux', 'python', 'python'] │ │ } │ ╰─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯

• Publish blog posts from GIT to dev.to
  4 projects | dev.to | 2 Jul 2021

  Chris Amico - For parsing front matter from Markdown file