fast, extensible Markdown parser in pure Python

 mistletoe is a Markdown parser in pure Python,
 designed to be fast, spec-compliant and fully customizable.
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 Apart from being the fastest
 CommonMark-compliant Markdown parser implementation in pure Python,
 mistletoe also supports easy definitions of custom tokens.
 Parsing Markdown into an abstract syntax tree
 also allows swapping out renderers for different output formats,
 without touching any of the core components.
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 CommonMark is a dialect of Markdown with a strict specification.
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 Markdown is a lightweight markup language
 with plain-text-formatting syntax.