[Python-markdown-discuss] Linebreaks within paragraph handling (GitHub Flavored Markdown)

[Brian N. <bg...@gm...>]

Hi -

First of all, thanks for your great work on this package. It is really useful.

My users are easily confused and get tripped up by the way Markdown
does not insert a <br /> tag when it encounters a newline in a
paragraph-like construct. So I'm searching for a way to implement this
behavior, just like StackOverflow and GitHub Flavored Markdown do:
http://github.github.com/github-flavored-markdown/

Has this been done by anyone before? If not, what is the best way to
do this, as an extension? Any pointers on how to best do that? As a
preprocessor or tree extension?

Or is there already a Python implementation of GitHub flavored Markdown?

Thanks,
BN