To install Markdown's extensions by Python
- by Masi
The installation notes (git://gitorious.org/python-markdown/mainline.git) say in the file using_as_module.txt
One of the parameters that you can
pass is a list of Extensions.
Extensions
must be available as python modules either within the
markdown.extensions
package or on your PYTHONPATH with names starting with mdx_,
followed by the
name of the extension. Thus, extensions=['footnotes'] will
first look for
the module markdown.extensions.footnotes,
then a module named
mdx_footnotes. See the documentation specific to the
extension you are
using for help in specifying configuration settings for that
extension.
I put the folder "extensions" to ~/bin/python/ such that my PYTHONPATH is the following
export PYTHONPATH=/Users/masi/bin/python/:/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/
The instructions say that I need to import the addons such that
import markdown
import <module-name>
However, I cannot see any module in my Python. This suggests me that the extensions are not available as "python modules - - on [my] PYTHONPATH with names starting with mdx_ - -."
How can you get Markdown's extensions to work?
2nd attempt
I run at ~/bin/markdown
git clone git://gitorious.org/python-markdown/mainline.git python-markdown
cd python-markdown
python setup.py install
I put the folder /Users/masi/bin/markdown/python-markdown/build to my PATH because the installation message suggests me that is the new location of the extensions.
I have the following in a test markdown -document
[TOC]
-- headings here with # -format ---
However, I do not get the table of contents.
This suggests me that we need to somehow activate the extensions when we compile by the markdown.py -script. **The problem returns to my first quoted text which I is rather confusing to me.
