[Python-markdown-discuss] Markdown Version 1.7 - Release candidate 1

[Waylan L. <wa...@gm...>]

Release Candidate 1 of Markdown version 1.7 for is now available for
community review. Dowload from here[1].

[1]: http://downloads.sourceforge.net/python-markdown/python_markdown-1.7.rc1.zip

See CHANGE_LOG.txt for the changes. Please report any problems either
here or on the tracker.

Note that various features marked as depreciated in 1.6 have been
removed, so this release is somewhat backward incompatible. Most
notably, `str(md)` will no longer work. `md.convert(text)` should be
used instead. The `toString` and `toUnicode` methods no longer exist.
The `__unicode__` method calls `convert` and `__str__` returns some
info about the instance rather than the converted output (although I'm
open for suggestions for improvment in the info provided). Additionally,
the `encoding` argument has been removed from both `markdown` and
`Markdown`. Markdown expects unicode (or ascii) input and it is the
users responsibility to ensure that's what is provided. Therefore, all
output is in unicode. Only `markdownFromFile` accepts an encoding.

Happy testing!

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Waylan Limberg
wa...@gm...