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diff --git a/docs/using_as_module.md b/docs/using_as_module.md index 662affd..0d94d12 100644 --- a/docs/using_as_module.md +++ b/docs/using_as_module.md @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ -Using Markdown as Python Library -================================ +Using Markdown as a Python Library +====================++============ First and foremost, Python-Markdown is intended to be a python library module used by various projects to convert Markdown syntax into HTML. @@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ The Details Python-Markdown provides two public functions (`markdown.markdown` and `markdown.markdownFromFile`) both of which wrap the public class -`markdown.Markdown`. If your processing one document at a time, the +`markdown.Markdown`. If you're processing one document at a time, the 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. @@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ The following options are available on the `markdown.markdown` function: Python-Markdown provides an API for third parties to write extensions to the parser adding their own additions or changes to the syntax. A few commonly used extensions are shipped with the markdown library. See - the extension documentation for a list of available extensions. + the [extension documentation](extensions) for a list of available extensions. The list of extensions may contain instances of extensions or stings of extension names. If an extension name is provided as a string, the @@ -137,7 +137,7 @@ The following options are available on the `markdown.markdown` function: * `enable_attributes`: Enable the conversion of attributes. Default: True -* `smart_emphasis`: Treat `_connected_words_` intelegently Default: True +* `smart_emphasis`: Treat `_connected_words_` intelligently Default: True * `lazy_ol`: Ignore number of first item of ordered lists. Default: True @@ -162,8 +162,8 @@ The following options are available on the `markdown.markdown` function: ### `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 -the following required options: +`markdown.markdown`. It does **not** accept a `text` (or Unicode) string. +Instead, it accepts the following required options: * `input` (required): The source text file. @@ -173,7 +173,7 @@ the following required options: * a readable file-like object, * or `None` (default) which will read from `stdin`. -* `output`: The target which output to written to. +* `output`: The target which output is written to. `output` may be set to one of three options: @@ -182,13 +182,13 @@ the following required options: * or `None` (default) which will write to `stdout`. * `encoding`: The encoding of the source text file. Defaults to - "utf-8". The same encoding will always be used for the output file. + "utf-8". The same encoding will always be used for input and output. The 'xmlcharrefreplace' error handler is used when encoding the output. **Note:** This is the only place that decoding and encoding of unicode takes place in Python-Markdown. If this rather naive solution does not - meet your special needs, it is suggested that you write your own code - to handle your specific encoding/decoding needs. + meet your specific needs, it is suggested that you write your own code + to handle your encoding/decoding needs. ### `markdown.Markdown([**kwargs])` @@ -215,6 +215,10 @@ must be passed to one of two instance methods: html1 = md.convert(text1) md.reset() html2 = md.convert(text2) + + You can also change calls to `reset` togeather: + + html3 = md.reset().convert(text3) * `Markdown.convertFile(**kwargs)` @@ -223,4 +227,4 @@ must be passed to one of two instance methods: `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`. + `convertFile` as is the case with `convert`. |