pyromark

pyromark (stands for Python Rust Optimized Markdown) is a blazingly fast CommonMark-compliant Markdown parser for Python.

Uses pulldown-cmark Rust crate under the hood.

Installation

pip install -U pyromark

Documentation

https://pyromark.readthedocs.io

Basic examples

See documentation for more comprehensive examples.

Convert Markdown to HTML

import pyromark

html = pyromark.html("# Hello world")
assert html == "<h1>Hello world</h1>\n"

Iterating over Markdown elements

import pyromark

for event in pyromark.events("# Hello world"):
    # All event types are fully type annotated
    # so you will get static type checking
    # and Tab completions in your IDE!
    match event:
        case {"Start": {"Heading": {"level": heading_level}}}:
            print(f"Heading with {heading_level} level started")
        case {"Text": text}:
            print(f"Got {text!r} text")
        case {"End": {"Heading": heading_level}}:
            print(f"Heading with {heading_level} level ended")
        case other_event:
            print(f"Got {other_event!r}")

Performance

160x faster than markdown2, 130x faster than Markdown, 119x faster than mistletoe, 103x faster than markdown-it-py, 75x faster than mistune.

If you use threading, the difference with other libraries will be even more enormous, since pyromark releases the GIL.

See benchmark.

License

MIT