Markdown is a nice way to create web pages without having to use html, but what if you want to convert markdown to html? I searched on the web a way to do it with python and I found this code that I modified so that you can use it with tkinter, my favourite module to make graphic user interfaces with python. I posted the video with the true live coding… fast forward it to see how it goes in a quick way, because I messed around a bit, trying to understand the code I found on github (thanks to the authors, by the way).<\/p>\n
Here is the code.<\/p>\n
#!\/usr\/bin\/env python\r\n\r\nimport markdown\r\nimport os\r\nimport tkinter as tk\r\nfrom tkinter import filedialog\r\n\r\n\r\nTEMPLATE = \"\"\"<!DOCTYPE html>\r\n<html>\r\n<head>\r\n <meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\">\r\n <meta name=\"referrer\" content=\"no-referrer\" \/>\r\n <meta name=\"referrer\" content=\"unsafe-url\" \/>\r\n <meta name=\"referrer\" content=\"origin\" \/>\r\n <meta name=\"referrer\" content=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\" \/>\r\n <meta name=\"referrer\" content=\"origin-when-cross-origin\" \/>\r\n\r\n <title>Page Title<\/title>\r\n\r\n <link href=\"https:\/\/maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com\/bootstrap\/3.3.7\/css\/bootstrap.min.css\" rel=\"stylesheet\">\r\n <style>\r\n body {\r\n font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;\r\n }\r\n code, pre {\r\n font-family: monospace;\r\n }\r\n <\/style>\r\n<\/head>\r\n<body>\r\n<div class=\"container\">\r\n{{content}}\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/body>\r\n<\/html>\r\n\"\"\"\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\ndef main(args=None):\r\n with open(args) as file:\r\n md = file.read()\r\n extensions = ['extra', 'smarty']\r\n html = markdown.markdown(md, extensions=extensions, output_format='html5')\r\n doc = TEMPLATE.replace('{{content}}', html);\r\n with open(\"file.html\", \"w\") as file:\r\n file.write(doc)\r\n os.startfile(\"file.html\")\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\ndef start(event):\r\n testo = text.get(\"0.0\", tk.END)\r\n with open(\"file_1.md\", \"w\") as file:\r\n file.write(testo)\r\n main(\"file_1.md\")\r\n\r\nroot = tk.Tk()\r\nroot.withdraw()\r\nfname = filedialog.askopenfile(initialdir=\".\")\r\nroot = tk.Tk()\r\ntext = tk.Text(root)\r\ntext.pack()\r\n\r\nwith open(fname.name) as file:\r\n file = file.read()\r\n\r\ntext.insert(\"0.0\", file)\r\ntext.bind(\"<Control-b>\", start)\r\n\r\nroot.mainloop()\r\n<\/pre>\nThe markdown file (it ends with .md)<\/h2>\n# Example of Markdow to html\r\n\r\n- this is cool\r\n- wow, it works\r\n- ... really?\r\n- ...\r\n- the end<\/pre>\nThe output of the conversion of .md in .html<\/h2>\n<!DOCTYPE html>\r\n<html>\r\n<head>\r\n <meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\">\r\n <meta name=\"referrer\" content=\"no-referrer\" \/>\r\n <meta name=\"referrer\" content=\"unsafe-url\" \/>\r\n <meta name=\"referrer\" content=\"origin\" \/>\r\n <meta name=\"referrer\" content=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\" \/>\r\n <meta name=\"referrer\" content=\"origin-when-cross-origin\" \/>\r\n\r\n <title>Page Title<\/title>\r\n\r\n <link href=\"https:\/\/maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com\/bootstrap\/3.3.7\/css\/bootstrap.min.css\" rel=\"stylesheet\">\r\n <style>\r\n body {\r\n font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;\r\n }\r\n code, pre {\r\n font-family: monospace;\r\n }\r\n <\/style>\r\n<\/head>\r\n<body>\r\n<div class=\"container\">\r\n<h1>Example of Markdow to html<\/h1>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>this is cool<\/li>\r\n<li>wow, it works<\/li>\r\n<li>… really?<\/li>\r\n<li>…<\/li>\r\n<li>the end<\/li>\r\n<li>another line…<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<h2>It’s fun to use markdow<\/h2>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/body>\r\n<\/html>\r\n<\/pre>\nThat looks like this<\/p>\n\r\n\r\n
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