Re: [Python-markdown-discuss] XHTML or HTML?

[Yuri T. <qar...@gm...>]

Is there any obvious benefit to not just adding output_format as a
parameter to convert()? What do we gain with setting this as a field
of the instance?

> Well, we could, except that property requires new-style classes -
> which python-markdown does not use. To be honest, I don't know why.
> Perhaps for historical reasons. Although, I'm not aware of any reason
> holding us back from changing that.

No particularly good reason, considering that it's 2009 now. However,
we should stick with what's available in 2.3.

- yuri

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