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Blazingly fast Markdown parser for Python written in Rust.

pyromark

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pyromark (stands for Python Rust Optimized Markdown) is a blazingly fast CommonMark-compliant Markdown parser for Python.

Uses pulldown-cmark Rust crate under the hood.

Installation

python -m pip install -U pyromark

Example

import pyromark

html = pyromark.markdown("# Hello world")
assert html == "<h1>Hello world</h1>\n"

Documentation

https://pyromark.readthedocs.io

Performance

128x faster than Markdown, 105x faster than markdown-it-py, 79x faster than mistune, 8x faster than markdown-it-pyrs.

If you use threading, the difference with other libraries will be even more enormous, since pyromark releases the GIL.

See benchmark.

License

MIT