New-Line-to-Break Extension

Summary

The New-Line-to-Break (nl2br) Extension will cause newlines to be treated as hard breaks; like StackOverflow and GitHub flavored Markdown do.

Example

>>> import markdown >>> text = """ ... Line 1 ... Line 2 ... """ >>> html = markdown.markdown(text, extensions=['nl2br']) >>> print html <p>Line 1<br /> Line 2</p>

Usage

See Extensions for general extension usage. Use nl2br as the name of the extension.

This extension does not accept any special configuration options.

A trivial example:

markdown.markdown(some_text, extensions=['nl2br'])