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authorWaylan Limberg <waylan@gmail.com>2011-06-23 11:36:00 -0400
committerWaylan Limberg <waylan@gmail.com>2011-06-23 12:16:37 -0400
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Cleaned up backward compatability of old positional arguments. Some people may be using them, so we should continue to support them. Also adjusted docs to encourage using keyword args only. However, if existing code was using positional args in previous versions, it should still work.
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-rw-r--r--docs/using_as_module.txt17
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/docs/using_as_module.txt b/docs/using_as_module.txt
index c7c6da2..6ac82d8 100644
--- a/docs/using_as_module.txt
+++ b/docs/using_as_module.txt
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ functions will serve your needs. However, if you need to process
multiple documents, it may be advantageous to create a single instance
of the `markdown.Markdown` class and pass multiple documents through it.
-### `markdown.markdown(text [, extensions][, **kwargs])`
+### `markdown.markdown(text [, **kwargs])`
The following options are available on the `markdown.markdown` function:
@@ -154,7 +154,7 @@ The following options are available on the `markdown.markdown` function:
</ol>
-### `markdown.markdownFromFile(input [, output] [, extensions] [, encoding] [, **kwargs])`
+### `markdown.markdownFromFile(**kwargs)`
With a few exceptions, `markdown.markdownFromFile` accepts the same options as
`markdown.markdown`. It does **not** accept a `text` string. Instead, it accepts
@@ -183,7 +183,7 @@ the following required options:
meet your special needs, it is suggested that you write your own code
to handle your specific encoding/decoding needs.
-### `markdown.Markdown([extensions][, **kwargs])`
+### `markdown.Markdown([**kwargs])`
The same options are available when initializing the `markdown.Markdown` class
as on the `markdown.markdown` function, except that the class does **not**
@@ -209,10 +209,11 @@ must be passed to one of two instance methods:
md.reset()
html2 = md.convert(text2)
-* `Markdown.convertFile(input, output, encoding)`
+* `Markdown.convertFile(**kwargs)`
The arguments of this method are identical to the arguments of the same
- name on the `markdown.markdownFromFile` function. As with the `convert`
- method, this method should be used to process multiple files without
- creating a new instance of the class for each document. State may need to
- be `reset` between each call to `convertFile` as with `convert`.
+ name on the `markdown.markdownFromFile` function (`input`, `output`, and
+ `encoding`). As with the `convert` method, this method should be used to
+ process multiple files without creating a new instance of the class for
+ each document. State may need to be `reset` between each call to
+ `convertFile` as with `convert`.