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title: Release Notes for v3.2
Python-Markdown 3.2 Release Notes
Python-Markdown version 3.2 supports Python versions 3.5, 3.6, 3.7, 3.8, and PyPy3.
Backwards-incompatible changes
Drop support for Python 2.7
Python 2.7 reaches end-of-life on 2020-01-01 and Python-Markdown 3.2 has dropped support for it. Please upgrade to Python 3, or use Python-Markdown 3.1.
em and strong inline processor changes
In order to fix issue #792, em/strong inline processors were refactored. This
translated into removing many of the existing inline processors that handled this
logic:
em_strongstrongemphasisstrong2emphasis
These processors were replaced with two new ones:
em_strongem_strong2
The legacy_em extension was also modified with new,
refactored logic and simply overrides the em_strong2 inline processor.
CodeHilite now always wraps with <code> tags
Before, the HTML generated by CodeHilite looked like:
<pre><code>foo = 'bar'</code></pre>if you were not using Pygments.<pre>foo = 'bar'</pre>if you were using Pygments.
To make the cases more consistent (and adhere to many Markdown specifications and
HTML code block markup suggestions), CodeHilite will now always additionally wrap
code with <code> tags. See #862 for more details.
This change does not alter the Python-Markdown API, but users relying on the old markup will find their output now changed.
Internally, this change relies on the Pygments 2.4, so you must be using at least that version to see this effect. Users with earlier Pygments versions will continue to see the old behavior.
markdown.util.etree deprecated
Previously, Python-Markdown was using either the xml.etree.cElementTree module
or the xml.etree.ElementTree module, based on their availability. In modern
Python versions, the former is a deprecated alias for the latter. Thus, the
compatibility layer is deprecated and extensions are advised to use
xml.etree.ElementTree directly. Importing markdown.util.etree will raise
a DeprecationWarning beginning in version 3.2 and may be removed in a future
release.
Therefore, extension developers are encouraged to replace
from markdown.util import etree with
import xml.etree.ElementTree as etree in their code.
New features
The following new features have been included in the release:
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Some new configuration options have been added to the toc extension:
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The
anchorlink_classandpermalink_classoptions allow class(es) to be assigned to theanchorlinkandpermalinkrespectively. This allows using icon fonts from CSS for the links. Therefore, an empty string passed topermalinknow generates an emptypermalink. Previously nopermalinkwould have been generated. (#776) -
The
permalink_titleoption allows the title attribute of apermalinkto be set to something other than the default English stringPermanent link. (#877)
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Document thread safety (#812).
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Markdown parsing in HTML has been exposed via a separate extension called
md_in_html. -
Add support for Python 3.8.
Bug fixes
The following bug fixes are included in the 3.2 release:
- HTML tag placeholders are no longer included in
.toc_tokens(#899). - Unescape backslash-escaped characters in TOC ids (#864).
- Refactor bold and italic logic in order to solve complex nesting issues (#792).
- Always wrap CodeHilite code in
codetags (#862).